Tennessee lawmakers look beyond the 180-day school year
A legislative panel has floated ideas for how to change the school calendar from the required 180 days a year to a formula based on the number of instructional hours.
Rep. Bo Watson, R-Hixson, said school systems should have more flexibility in setting their hours.
“As long as the outcome is positive for the student and continues the state in the trajectory that we are moving in, in terms of student performances and student outcomes, I think how we get there can create a lot of variation,” Watson said. “But at the end of the day, we expect student performance to improve.”