KENTUCKY LEGISLATIVE RESEARCH COMMISSION
School
districts would be allowed to excuse up to 10 instructional days missed
this school year under legislation that today passed the Kentucky
House.
House
Bill 410, sponsored by Rep. John Will Stacy )D-West Liberty) would take
effect immediately upon becoming law. Although students would be
excused on the instruction days made possible
if HB 410 becomes law, teachers and other school employees would still
work on those days.
Many of the state’s 173 public school districts have missed more than 10 days of school this winter due to snow, ice or bitter cold.
“HB
410 is simply the bill that allows some relief for our struggling
school districts after the disastrous winter that we’ve had,” Stacy
said. “It allows them to go ahead and plan the remainder
of their school year.”
Supporting
the bill was Rep. Brian Linder (R-Dry Ridge) who explained that it will
be a help rural school districts like his that “don’t have delays (when
there is bad weather). If the weather
is bad, we miss the whole day.”
Rep.
Adam Koenig (R-Erlanger) who voted against the bill, said that in the
eight years he has served in the Kentucky House “this is the third time
we will have forgiven 10 days. And I vote
against it every time. And it’s bound to catch up with us at some
point.”
HB 410 passed the House 82-8 and now goes to the Senate.