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agreement. 17 High school seniors’ school year may be reduced by up to 5 days or 30 hours. 18 Thirty-three hours of the full-day kindergarten program and twenty-two hours of grades 1-6 may be used for home visits by the teacher or for parent-teacher conferences. Twelve hours of grades 7-12 may be used to consult with parents or for parent-teacher conferences. 19 Oregon sets maximum, rather than minimum, hours/day: grades kindergarten-8=8.0 hours; grades 9-12=8.5 hours. 20 School boards may release graduating seniors prior to the end of the school year. SOURCE: Education Commission of the States, 50 State Comparison: Instructional Time Policies, retrieved June 6, 2018 from https://www.ecs.org/50-state-comparison- instructional-time-policies/. Data Source. 4