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SCHOOL DAY

The St. Martin Parish School Board shall require every school under its jurisdiction to conduct a minimum daily session of not less than the required daily minutes to a minimum annual total of 63,720 minutes of instructional time, exclusive of all recesses.

The school day shall include, by definition, the daily period of time established by the School Board as the official operating hours of the school for administrative and instructional purposes, as well as co-curricular activities.

The School Board shall require each elementary school to dedicate any instructional time beyond that offered during the 1997-98 school year to the study of those subjects for which content standards have been adopted by the Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (BESE).  Specific emphasis shall be placed in the lower grades on teaching mathematics and reading or language arts.

Ref:     La. Rev. Stat. Ann. §§17:154, 17:154.1, 17:154.3

Louisiana Handbook for School Administrators, Bulletin 741, Louisiana Department of Education

St. Martin Parish School Board