No matter when schools reopen, Dallas ISD won’t need to add extra days to its calendar to make up for this week’s closures.
Over the weekend, district officials announced school would be canceled on Monday and Tuesday, as roads across much of North Texas remain icy. In their announcement, district officials said they would make those two days up on April 6 and May 4.
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The district was already scheduled to hold classes on those days. When the district’s board approved the academic calendar for this year, they included those two days as make-up days for anticipated inclement weather. But those are the district’s only two built-in make-up days.
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If another round of inclement weather forces the district to cancel school again, officials won’t necessarily need to add days to the calendar to make up for it.
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Under state law, if school districts miss more than two days in a school year because of weather, safety or health issues, they can ask the Texas Education Agency for a missed school day waiver, allowing them to forgo adding more make-up days or hours to their calendar. Many North Texas districts received such waivers in 2021, when a February winter storm knocked out power across much of the state and closed schools for a week or more.
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