PRINTER'S NO. 1471
No. 1253 Session of 1983
INTRODUCED BY FREIND, GLADECK, HONAMAN, McCLATCHY, PITTS AND
CORNELL, JUNE 22, 1983
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION, JUNE 22, 1983
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of March 10, 1949 (P.L.30, No.14), entitled "An
2 act relating to the public school system, including certain
3 provisions applicable as well to private and parochial
4 schools; amending, revising, consolidating and changing the
5 laws relating thereto," further providing for the minimum
6 number of days.
7 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
8 hereby enacts as follows:
9 Section 1. Section 1501 of the act of March 10, 1949
10 (P.L.30, No.14), known as the Public School Code of 1949,
11 amended June 30, 1980 (P.L.279, No.80), is amended to read:
12 Section 1501. Minimum Number of Days; School Month.--All
13 public kindergartens, elementary and secondary schools shall be
14 kept open each school year for at least one hundred eighty (180)
15 days of instruction for pupils. No days on which the schools are
16 closed shall be counted as days taught, and no time shall be
17 counted as a pupil session for any activity to which admission
18 is charged. No school district shall be required to change its
19 graduation schedule or require graduating students to return to
1 school after graduation to make up class days lost due to severe
2 weather conditions or, in the school year 1979-1980 for
3 situations beyond the control of the school district as a result
4 of major construction and renovation to the school building. No
5 district which makes a bona fide effort as determined by the
6 Secretary of Education to provide one hundred eighty (180) days
7 of instruction for graduating students shall receive less
8 subsidy payments or reimbursements than it would otherwise be
9 entitled to receive on account of the school year because of the
10 provisions of this section. Unless otherwise provided by this
11 act, the board of school directors in any district or joint
12 board may keep such other schools or departments as it may
13 establish open during such time as it may direct. In the event
14 it appears that any school district will not be able to keep
15 schools open in any school year for a minimum of one hundred
16 eighty (180) days of instruction for pupils as a result of a
17 work stoppage, the Secretary of Education shall petition the
18 court of common pleas wherein jurisdiction lies to ensure an
19 order to terminate the work stoppage and the Secretary of
20 Education shall utilize whatever means necessary to assist the
21 school district in providing the one hundred eighty (180) days
22 of instruction for the pupils in accordance with the officially
23 adopted calendar of instructional days approved by the board of
24 school directors.
25 Twenty days of actual teaching shall constitute a school
26 month.
27 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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