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Rep. Cabot offers bill to let northern Michigan districts extend school year after widespread ice storm
Summary
Representative Cabot testified in favor of House Bill 4,345 to allow local districts affected by a severe Upper Peninsula ice storm to extend the school year into July, citing weeks-long power outages, destroyed utility infrastructure and concentrated impacts in high-poverty counties.
Representative Cabot told the House Education and Workforce Committee that House Bill 4,345 would give local school districts affected by an extreme ice storm in northern Michigan flexibility to extend the school year into July without penalty.
Cabot described a multi-county emergency that cut power to roughly 300,000 residents and left some families without electricity for more than 20 days. "I was personally without power for 8 days," Cabot said. "People were not able to get out of their homes due to the fallen…
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