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158.060 School month and school day -- Duty-free lunch period -- Nonteaching time for teachers.

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Page 1 of 2 158.060 School month and school day -- Duty-free lunch period -- Nonteaching time for teachers. (1) Twenty (20) school days, or days in which teachers are actually employed in the schoolroom, shall constitute a school month in the common schools. (2) Each full-time teacher shall be provided with a duty-free lunch period each day during the regularly scheduled student lunch period. The duty-free lunch period <br>shall be not less than the length of the lunch period specified in the school calendar <br>approved by the chief state school officer. A full-time teacher may be assigned to <br>lunch room duty during the regularly scheduled student lunch period only for an <br>amount of time equal to the noninstructional time in excess of fifty-five (55) <br>minutes included in the teacher's daily schedule. The calculation of noninstructional <br>time shall not include the teacher's duty-free lunch period, the time teachers are <br>required to be at school prior to the start of the student's instructional day, or the <br>time teachers are required to remain at school after the students are dismissed. (3) Except for children with disabilities and children attending the primary school program who may attend a program of less than six (6) hours per day under policy <br>adopted by the local school district board of education and approved by the <br>commissioner of education and children attending a school district where the local <br>board has approved a schedule that provides at least the equivalent of six (6) hours <br>of daily instruction during the school year, a minimum of six (6) hours of actual <br>school work shall constitute a school day. Kindergarten programs may be operated <br>for less than six (6) hours without state board approval. The Kentucky Board of <br>Education, upon recommendation of the chief state school officer, shall develop and <br>approve regulations governing make up by school districts of whole days missed <br>due to emergencies, or partial days missed as a result of shortening regularly <br>scheduled school days due to emergencies. (4) Teachers shall be provided additional time for nonteaching activities. The nonteaching time shall be used to provide teachers opportunities for professional <br>development activities as provided in KRS 156.095, instructional planning, school-<br>based decision making as provided in KRS 160.345, curriculum development, and <br>outreach activities involving their students' families and the community. (5) Character education programs and activities shall be considered valuable and legitimate components of the actual school work constituting a school day under <br>subsection (3) of this section. Effective: July 14, 2000 <br>History: Amended 2000 Ky. Acts ch. 162, sec. 5, effective July 14, 2000; and ch. 261, sec. 3, effective July 14, 2000. -- Amended 1996 Ky. Acts ch. 20, sec. 1, effective <br>July 15, 1996; ch. 195, sec. 24, effective July 15, 1996; and ch. 362, sec. 6, effective <br>July 15, 1996. -- Amended 1994 Ky. Acts ch. 6, sec. 2, effective July 15, 1994; <br>ch. 394, sec. 21, effective July 15, 1994; and ch. 405, sec. 26, effective July 15, <br>1994. -- Amended 1990 Ky. Acts ch. 476, Pt. I, sec. 26, effective July 13, 1990. -- <br>Amended 1986 Ky. Acts ch. 40, sec. 1, effective July 15, 1986. -- Amended 1985 <br>(1st Extra. Sess.) Ky. Acts ch. 10, sec. 12, effective October 18, 1985. -- Amended <br>1984 Ky. Acts ch. 359, sec. 1, effective July 13, 1984. -- Amended 1978 Ky. Acts <br>ch. 306, sec. 1, effective March 30, 1978. -- Amended 1976 Ky. Acts ch. 345, sec. 1. Page 2 of 2 -- Amended 1974 Ky. Acts ch. 271, sec. 1. -- Amended 1962 Ky. Acts ch. 244, Art. <br>VII, sec. 1. -- Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, <br>from Ky. Stat. sec. 4363-6. Legislative Research Commission Note (7/14/2000). This section was amended by 2000 Ky. Acts chs. 162 and 261, which do not appear to be in conflict and have been <br>codified together.