year.

read on June 1, 2019, for the 2016–17 fiscal year to the 2018–19 fiscal year, inclusive, on a school district operating one or more schools on a four-day school week.

school year.

local educational agency who possesses a valid certification document can be combined with assignments made under the general supervision of an employee of the local educational agency who possesses a valid certification document as registered by law to meet the equivalent of a minimum day of instruction.

The school district shall provide on an annual basis, while operating a school on a four-day school week, not less than 560 hours of instructional time for kindergarten, not less than 700 hours of instructional time for grades 1, 2, and 3, and not less than 845 hours of instructional time for grades 4 to 12, inclusive. The school district may exceed these minimum instructional times except that no pupil in a kindergarten shall be kept in school more than four hours in any day, exclusive of recesses. The school day may not exceed eight hours, nor may the school week be less than four days.

Prior to operating a school on a four-day school week, the school district shall secure the approval of the governing board of the district and of any collective bargaining agents representing employees of the school district.

A school site council in the school district shall be involved in the planning and evaluation of a four-day school week.

The school district shall consider the impact of the longer schoolday on primary grade pupils, and the impact of the four-day school week on working parents who may be required to find child care services for their schoolage children due to the shortened school week.

If a school district elects to operate a school on a four-day school week as authorized by this chapter, the school district shall be entitled to receive the same support, but not more support, from the State School Fund due to the average daily attendance at the schools within the school district that it would have received if the school district had been operating under the provisions of law relating to the 175-day school year.

If the school district elects to operate a school on a four-day school week pursuant to this chapter, the reduced number of schooldays in the school district shall not affect the rights of certificated or classified employees of the school district with regard to classification, tenure, or notice, and shall not otherwise affect the contract rights of the employees.

If a school operating on a four-day school week pursuant to Section 37710.3, 37710.5, 37711, or 37712 fails to achieve its Academic Performance Index growth target pursuant to Section 52052, the authority of that school to operate on a four-day school week shall be permanently revoked commencing with the beginning of the following school year.

Beginning in the 2004–05 fiscal year, the following school districts in San Diego County may operate one or more schools in their respective districts on a four-day school week if the districts comply with the instructional time requirements specified in Section 46207 and the other requirements of this chapter:

of instruction than is otherwise needed to meet the minimum instructional minute requirements pursuant to Section 46207 in the event that one or more of the schools in the school district is prevented from operating for any of the reasons described in Section 41422 or 46392. If the school district does not need some or all of the five additional days of instruction in order to meet the minimum instructional minute requirements in that school year, the school district shall only offer the extra instructional days to pupils as necessary to meet those requirements.

pursuant to Section 46207, to those penalties.

(ii) “Nutritionally adequate lunch” is one that qualifies for reimbursement under the most current meal

pattern for the federal National School Lunch Program, as defined in Section 210.10 of Title 7 of the Code of Federal Regulations.

school year, shall not operate a four-day school week.