§ 72.40.031. School year -- School term -- Legal holidays -- Use of schools
The school year for the state school for the blind and the state school for the deaf shall commence on the first day of July of each year and shall terminate on the 30th day of June of the succeeding year. The regular school term shall be for a period of nine months and shall commence as near as reasonably practical at the time of the commencement of regular terms in the public schools, with the equivalent number of days as are now required by law, and the regulations of the superintendent of public instruction as now or hereafter amended, during the school year in the public schools. The school shall observe all legal holidays, in the same manner as other agencies of state government, and the schools will not be in session on such days and such other days as may be approved by the respective superintendents. During the period when the schools are not in session during the regular school term, schools may be operated, subject to the approval of the respective superintendents, for the instruction of students or for such other reasons which are in furtherance of the objects and purposes of such schools.
[1985 c 378 § 16; 1979 c 141 § 248; 1970 ex.s. c 50 § 6.]
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Severability -- Effective date -- 1985 c 378: See notes following RCW 72.01.050.
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