Assemblyman Hagman's bill to shorten extended summer for Chino Valley kids passes the Assembly Education Committee

Sacramento-- Assemblyman Curt Hagman (R- Chino Hills) is pleased to announce the passage of AB 35XXX through the Assembly Floor today. The bill saves taxpayer dollars while minimizing the impact in the summer-break of the kids and parents who are being punished for the District's mistake.

The Chino Valley Unified School District minimized educational minutes at 2 schools by a few minutes each day. The bill must still pass the State Senate.

Assembly Bill 35XXX would declare Chino Valley Unified School District to have completed 180 days of instruction in the 2008-09 school year for the purposes of computing any instructional time penalty associated with the Longer Year Incentive program, as long as the district follows a list of requirements. 

"I am very pleased to see member of both parties join together for such a common sense piece of legislation.  These kids should be out of school by now but because of an administrative mistake, they're being forced to attend as many as seven weeks of extra school.  I am hopeful that this bill will pass out of the Senate in time to give these kids a much deserved summer vacation" said Assemblyman Hagman.