School term

(a) Each public school system shall maintain a term of no less than two hundred (200) days, divided as follows: Ask a legal question, get an answer ASAP!(1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.Person: includes a corporation, firm, company or association. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105Public school: means any school operated by an LEA or by the state with public funds. See Tennessee Code 49-6-3001Record: means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in a perceivable form. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105written: includes printing, typewriting, engraving, lithography, and any other mode of representing words and letters. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105Year: means a calendar year, unless otherwise expressed. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105(1) One hundred eighty (180) days for classroom instruction; (2) Ten (10) days for vacation with pay for a two hundred-day term, eleven (11) days for vacation with pay for a two hundred twenty-day term, and twelve (12) days for vacation with pay for a two hundred forty-day term; (3) Five (5) days for in-service education; (4) One (1) day for teacher-parent conferences; (5) Four (4) other days as designated by the local board of education upon the recommendation of the director of schools; and (6) (A) In the event of a natural disaster or serious outbreaks of illness affecting or endangering students or staff during a school year, the commissioner of education may waive for that school year the requirement under subdivision (a)(1) of one hundred eighty (180) days of classroom instruction, if a request is submitted to the commissioner by the director of schools. The waiver request may be for the entire LEA or for individual schools within the LEA; (B) Notwithstanding subdivisions (a)(1) and (6)(A), the commissioner of education shall waive the requirement under subdivision (a)(1) of one hundred eighty (180) days of classroom instruction for the 2019-2020 school year. This subdivision (a)(6)(B) does not prohibit a school from continuing classroom instruction after being issued a waiver from the commissioner pursuant to this subdivision (a)(6)(B). (b) Vacation days shall be in accordance with policies recommended by the local director of schools and adopted by the local board of education. (c) (1) (A) In-service days shall be used according to a plan recommended by the local director of schools in accordance with this section and other applicable statutes and adopted by the local board of education, a copy of which plan shall be filed with the commissioner of education on or before June 1 of the preceding school year and approved by the commissioner. The commissioner shall require that in-service training include at least two (2) hours of suicide prevention education for all teachers and principals each school year. This education may be accomplished through self-review of suitable suicide prevention materials. The commissioner shall also encourage the use of two (2) of the in-service training days to provide training to teachers, principals and other school personnel, and, to the extent possible, school board members, on issues of prevention and intervention strategies for students in the area of behavioral/emotional disorders. The training shall place an emphasis on understanding the warning signs of early-onset mental illness in children and adolescents and may be conducted by school counseling personnel, such as psychologists, social workers, guidance counselors or health faculty, by mental health clinicians or by approved personnel from mental health advocacy organizations using curricula approved by the departments of education and mental health and substance abuse services. In addition to other training and resources authorized by this chapter, the department of education shall, within available resources, collaborate with institutions of higher education to formally address dyslexia and similar reading disorders by providing kindergarten through twelfth grade (K-12) educators and teachers web-based or in-person training providing effective instruction for teaching students with dyslexia using appropriate scientific research and brain-based multisensory intervention methods and strategies. (B) Each local board of education shall require that each employee of the LEA who works directly with students in the LEA receive, once every three (3) years, in-service training on the detection, intervention, prevention, and treatment of human trafficking in which the victim is a child, which must be accomplished through the viewing of a video recording approved