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Board to consider virtual-day authorization to preserve state funding if district exceeds forgiven storm days
Summary
District staff said Aug. 11 they will ask the board to authorize virtual learning days as a tool to preserve state pupil-accounting funding if the district or a school must exceed the six 'forgiven' act-of-God days; virtual days can be limited (teacher check-ins, Google Classroom) rather than full-day synchronous instruction.
Mr. Francis presented the district’s plan for virtual learning days during the Committee of the Whole on Aug. 11, explaining the proposal is intended to preserve state funding when the district or individual schools exceed the six automatic 'act of God' days the Michigan pupil-accounting manual forgives.
Francis said the board previously…
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