Is it true that Brookline isn’t meeting state Time & Learning requirements for middle school and high school? Why do we need an override to comply with the law?
It is true that many Brookline high school students do not meet the required 990 hours for high school because the school day is too short to accommodate all the classes that now make up a Brookline educational experience. Similarly, our middle school years only comply with an elementary standard typically governing K-5 schools. Because we run K-8 schools, we “get away” with having a very short day for our 6-8 graders compared to our typically used comparison districts. Whether or not we are in compliance, changing the teachers’ contractual day requires negotiation of a contract, so we cannot simply lengthen the school day by declaring it longer. In the last contract negotiations, knowing that we needed more time to meet requirements — especially for the middle grades and high school — we negotiated the right to extend the school day in exchange for an adjustment to teacher salaries that made us more competitive for attracting and retaining the best teachers. That adjustment, however
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