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The weather is changing! Are you ready?
 If bad weather means school schedules are delayed or that school is cancelled for a day, how will you know?
- If your contact information is correct in your school records, you will get a recorded phone message at approximately 5:45 a.m.
- Before 5:45 a.m. the district website will publish schedule information.
- Before 5:45 a.m., radio and television stations pick up emergency notices from school districts and rebroadcast them for listeners and viewers.
How does bad weather impact bus routes?
- If the weather notices call for buses to follow "snow routes," your student may be picked up or dropped off at alternate locations. Check the website for details about those snow routes. Bookmarking that web page or putting a copy on the refrigerator would make it quickly accessible on a wintry morn.
How does bad weather impact school activities and before- and after-school programs? What about half day kindergarten?
- Answers to what happens to school lunch programs, field trips, half day school and out-of-district transportation and more are on the web in an impact chart that shows you what to expect, depending upon whether school is delayed two hours or cancelled for a day.
If school is cancelled for a day, how is that day made up in the school year?
- Traditionally, days lost to school closure are made up after what was scheduled to be the last day of school. This 2013-14 school year's "last day" is scheduled to be June 17. If schools are closed district wide during the school year, lost days are traditionally added after that scheduled "last day."
Do you announce that school WILL take place?
- Very rarely -- and only if weather conditions are known far in advance. School schedule announcements during the bad weather season are traditionally limited to notices of delay or closure. No message is good news -- school will be on schedule.
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