As children in Pennsylvania gear up for a new school year, Pennsylvania’s General Assembly has proposed multiple school-specific legislation in recent memoranda. The reforms range from extending flexible instructional days, mandating PFOS and PFOA chemical testing in schools to prohibiting certain aspects of school district superintendents’ contracts.

State Rep. Kristin Hill, R-York, proposed codifying the Flexible Instructional Days, a program that allows teachers to upload assignments to the internet and students receive and complete those assignments online on a day when the school building is closed for inclement weather but the students are still completing assignments and it’s considered a school day. The program was seen by supporters as offering greater flexibility to schools and preventing snow days from affecting the start of summer vacations.