
day after Labor Day for situations beyond the control of the
school district as a result of major construction and renovation
to the school building or natural disaster.
(2) Unless otherwise determined by the board, the daily
session of school shall open at nine ante-meridian and close at
four post-meridian, with an intermission of one hour at noon,
and an intermission of fifteen minutes in the forenoon and in
the afternoon. Upon request of a board of school directors for
an exception to the aforesaid daily schedule, the Secretary of
Education may, when in his opinion a meritorious educational
program warrants, approve a school week containing a minimum of
twenty seven and one-half hours of instruction as the equivalent
of five (5) school days, or a school year containing a minimum
of nine hundred ninety hours of instruction at the secondary
level or nine hundred (900) hours of instruction at the
elementary level as the equivalent of one hundred eighty (180)
school days.
(3) Professional and temporary professional employes shall
be allowed a lunch period free of supervisory or other duties of
at least thirty minutes.
(4) The provisions of this subsection shall not be
construed:
(i) to repeal any rule or regulation of any board of school
directors now in effect which provides for a lunch period longer
than the minimum prescribed herein or to repeal any action of
any board of school directors taken in compliance with section 7
of the act of July 25, 1913 (P.L.1024, No.466), entitled "An act
to protect the public health and welfare, by regulating the
employment of females in certain establishments, with respect to
their hours of labor and the conditions of their employment; by
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