Must high schools have class periods that meet a minimum number of minutes per week or day?
No. In May 2009, the Indiana State Board of Education issued an immediate waiver of the “seat time” requirement for awarding high school credit. Schools may choose to award high school credits by “demonstration of proficiency” (usually an assessment or other collection of experiences that demonstrate mastery of the content standards of the course). Schools may choose to continue to define credit using the state definition of a minimum of two hundred fifty (250) minutes of instruction per week for one (1) semester for a school operating on a traditional schedule; a minimum of eighty-five (85) minutes of instruction per class period, exclusive of passing time, for a school operating on a block schedule; or a minimum of seventy (70) minutes of instruction per class period, exclusive of passing time, for a school trimester schedule.
