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INFORMATION REGARDING MOST RECENT INCLEMENT WEATHER DAYS

 

On Thursday, February 20, 2014, the State Board of Education approved a resolution waiving student days missed by districts under a State of Emergency for weather issues.  The student days missed (January 28, 29, & 30; February 12 & 13) by Monroe County Schools fit the requirements of the waiver.

 

The Georgia Department of Education's Assessment and Accountability Office approved the Monroe County Schools request to move the testing windows for the various state tests back five (5) instructional days.  The delay of state testing by five days accounts for the five instructional days students missed due to inclement weather.

 

As a result of the SBOE Resolution and the extension of the state testing window by 5 days, Monroe County Schools' students will not make up the days indicated above.

 

Faculty and staff will make-up the time working on Curriculum Revisions, Curriculum Frameworks, Horizontal and Vertical Alignment of Curriculum, Benchmark and Predictor Tests, Rubrics to Evaluate Student Performance Tasks, Student Learning Objectives (SLO), and more.

 

Unless we experience more severe weather that further compromises instructional time for boys and girls, Spring Break will remain as scheduled, and  the last day of school and graduation will remain on May 23, 2014.

 

On behalf of the Monroe County Board of Education and Administration of Monroe County Schools, thank you for your patience as we worked to make a decision that was in the best of our students.

 

Respectfully submitted,

Mr. Anthony D. Pack, Ed. S. 

Superintendent of Schools

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