California § 37712 - Notwithstanding any other law, commencing with the 2025

§ 37712. Notwithstanding any other law, commencing with the 2025

(a) Notwithstanding any other law, commencing with the 2025–26 school year, the Stony Creek Joint Unified School District may operate one or more schools on a four-day school week if it complies with the instructional time requirements specified in Section 46207, the other requirements of this chapter, and all of the following requirements: (1) (A) The school district shall annually, by no later than June 1, submit to the department for review and approval, a plan for how the school district will ensure that the minimum instructional minutes required pursuant to Section 46207 will be met in the following school year. The plan shall include, but not be limited to, an annual school calendar with at least five additional days 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. (B) If the school district offered less than the minimum instructional minutes required pursuant to Section 46207, the school district shall be subject to the penalties described in subdivision (b) of Section 46207 and subdivision (c) of Section 46208. Nothing in this section shall be construed to subject the school district, if it has met the minimum instructional minutes required pursuant to Section 46207, to those penalties. (2) (A) The school district makes a nutritionally adequate breakfast, and a nutritionally adequate lunch, available five days per week to any pupil who requests a meal, free of charge, and without consideration of the pupil’s eligibility for federally funded free or reduced-price meals. (B) For purposes of subparagraph (A), the following definitions apply: (i) “Nutritionally adequate breakfast” is one that qualifies for reimbursement under the most current meal pattern for the federal School Breakfast Program, as defined in Section 220.8 of Title 7 of the Code of Federal Regulations. (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. (b) If the Stony Creek Joint Unified School District has an exclusive bargaining representative, it may operate a school on a four-day school week pursuant to this section only if the school district and the representative of each bargaining unit of school district employees mutually agree to that operation in a memorandum of understanding. (c) Notwithstanding subdivision (a), if the Stony Creek Joint Unified School District operates a four-day school week pursuant to this section but subsequently experiences, in a single year, a decline in status in 50 percent or more of the state indicators used to measure performance that are included in the evaluation rubrics adopted pursuant to Section 52064.5, the school district, commencing with the following school year, shall not operate a four-day school week. (d) This section shall become inoperative on July 1, 2029, and, as of January 1, 2030, is repealed.