EE. ANNUAL INSTRUCTIONAL MINUTES - CLASSROOM BASED 1. Review the charter school's attendance calendar and bell schedules or other available comparable documentation. If the charter school has multiple sites, select a sample of schoolsites that is representative of the charter school's grade spans (elementary, middle and high schools). 2. For each sampled site, compare the amount of instructional minutes offered for each grade level during the year being audited to the amount of instructional minutes required pursuant Education Code section 47612.5(a)(1). 3. Determine whether the charter school offered optional classes to satisfy instructional minutes requirements. If enrollment in optional classes was low, review the charter school's documentation of class offerings to ensure that the charter school acted effectively to comply with the law. Practices that are not consistent with effectively offering instructional time may include, but are not limited to, offering only a small number of courses that are appropriate only for limited numbers of pupils, and courses scheduled such that pupils may take them only by giving up their lunch period. 4. Prepare the "Schedule of Instructional Time" that must be presented in the Supplementary Information section of the audit report, showing by grade span the minimum instructional minutes requirements specified in Education Code section 47612.5(a)(1), the instructional minutes offered during the year being audited showing the sampled site with the lowest number of minutes offered at each grade span, and whether the charter school complied with the instructional minutes provisions. 5. If the charter school did not offer the required number(s) of instructional minutes, prepare a separate schedule for each site, showing only the grade level(s) that were not in compliance, and calculate a proportional reduction in apportionment consistent with subdivision (c) of Education Code section 47612.5. In a finding, include both the schedule(s) and the calculated reduction in apportionment.
EE. ANNUAL INSTRUCTIONAL MINUTES - CLASSROOM BASED 1. Review the charter school's attendance calendar and bell schedules or other available comparable documentation. If the charter school has multiple sites, select a sample of schoolsites that is representative of the charter school's grade spans (elementary, middle and high schools). 2. For each sampled site, compare the amount of instructional minutes offered for each grade level during the year being audited to the amount of instructional minutes required pursuant Education Code section 47612.5(a)(1). 3. Determine whether the charter school offered optional classes to satisfy instructional minutes requirements. If enrollment in optional classes was low, review the charter school's documentation of class offerings to ensure that the charter school acted effectively to comply with the law. Practices that are not consistent with effectively offering instructional time may include, but are not limited to, offering only a small number of courses that are appropriate only for limited numbers of pupils, and courses scheduled such that pupils may take them only by giving up their lunch period. 4. Prepare the "Schedule of Instructional Time" that must be presented in the Supplementary Information section of the audit report, showing by grade span the minimum instructional minutes requirements specified in Education Code section 47612.5(a)(1), the instructional minutes offered during the year being audited showing the sampled site with the lowest number of minutes offered at each grade span, and whether the charter school complied with the instructional minutes provisions. 5. If the charter school did not offer the required number(s) of instructional minutes, prepare a separate schedule for each site, showing only the grade level(s) that were not in compliance, and calculate a proportional reduction in apportionment consistent with subdivision (c) of Education Code section 47612.5. In a finding, include both the schedule(s) and the calculated reduction in apportionment.
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