The up-and-coming rule to increase Wenatchee High’s hours from 1,000 to 1,080 has been moved to the 2015-2016 school year. The rule will be implemented then and the schedules for all schools in the Wenatchee School District will be adjusted to fit the new hours.

“It’s all over, [we’re just waiting for] the governor to sign,” Les Vandervort, Chief Financial Officer for WSD, said. “The 1080 requirement did get pushed to the 2015-16 school year so we don’t have to deal with re-scheduling issues.”

“The latest schedule, the specific formula, isn’t finalized,” English teacher and Wenatchee Education Association High School representative Danielle Schafer-Cloke said. “They aren’t done determining the actual minutes of class time during the school day. There’s two different ways to calculate minutes – which way the legislature decides to vote for is what we’re waiting on.

“There’s lots of different issues for them to sort through. A school shifting their schedule is a major deal in and of itself. The bus schedules would be hard to change, too. Middle schools would have a lot to deal with, because sixth-graders would have to jump suddenly from 1,000 hours to 1,080 when they hit seventh-grade,” Schafer-Cloke said.