The Anchorage School District will extend the school day by a half hour for all grades starting Monday to make up for days lost during last month’s major snowstorms.
A school bus pauses on Rockridge Drive while other vehicles are momentarily stuck on December 14, 2022.
of instruction during and after the storms. Instead of adding days to the end of the school year, the district opted to add 30 minutes to the school day from Jan. 30 through March 9.forward in December, and it was approved unanimously by the school board Monday night. The minimum number of school days required for Alaska students is 170, and the district builds in 172 to allow for snow days each year.
Officials said they did not want to extend the school year to keep from interfering with graduations, travel, vacation and summer plans. They instead canceled the previously scheduled Feb. 22- Feb. 23 school conferences and turned those days into school days. Officials also canceled a teacher in-service day for Feb. 24, making it an instructional day, in addition to the added half hour every day.
This school year, the Mat-Su school district switched to remote learning on days when snow and ice have made roads unsafe,
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