Snow days plan different this year
October 15, 2014
The school district issued its 2014-2015 calendar without any inclement weather days.
Construction to update elementary schools like New York and Cordley required a longer summer for work to be completed. As a result, inclement weather days for the school year were eliminated to shorten the school year.
Typically, the district calendar committee builds one inclement weather day into the yearly schedule. When one day is built in, the state will forgive districts if there is an additional snow day taken.
Additionally, every semester has 12 block weeks built in. Last year, the district took four inclement weather days when it had only built one day in. This resulted in block weeks switching to full schedule weeks, and each day was lengthened for about a month.