State Could Allow Schools to Waive Snow Days

A number of local school districts are trying to decide what do about the loss of instructional time due to last week’s storm. This week, they could get some leeway from the state board of education.

Under state policy, local school districts can decide not to make up a total of four emergency days. But with a number of districts in Georgia missing at least eight days this school year due to winter weather, state officials may step in. On Thursday, the state board of education is expected to vote on a resolution. The resolution will allow local school boards to choose whether or not to makeup days from last week’s storm and the one that hit nearly three weeks ago.  Matt Cardoza is a spokesman for the state’s department of education.

“With so many of the days that school districts have had because of the weather this year, it’s just very difficult for some of them to be able to make up every single day that they’ve missed, so it’s flexibility so that they can make that decision at the local level if they’re unable to actually make them up.”