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Board explains 'flexible instruction' days, how they differ from traditional snow days
Summary
District officials explained that Pennsylvania allows five flexible instruction (remote) days. Gateway SD can use those five, then choose to add makeup days or more remote days to meet the 180‑day/required hours requirement.
Gateway School District administrators spent part of the meeting explaining how the district uses the state’s five flexible instruction days and how that differs from traditional snow days.
“The state kind of relaxed allotted five flexible instruction days or remote days for schools. So we’re allotted five flexible instruction days,” a district administrator said during the meeting, explaining that the district expected to use four by the next school day. After the five days are used, the district may…
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