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District to add 2-hour delay option, plans rural-route messaging and e-learning review
Summary
Danville CCSD 118 will implement a two-hour delay option for winter weather and develop targeted messaging for families on rural routes; the board will revisit e-learning policies at a January meeting.
Danville Community Unit School District 118 plans to add a two-hour delay start option for hazardous winter conditions and to improve communications with families on specific rural bus routes, Associate Superintendent Markisha Parker told the board on Dec. 17.
Under the plan, schools would start two hours later when a two-hour delay is called; AM pre-K would not operate on delay days. Parker said the delay can improve safety by allowing wind-chill or road temperatures to rise enough to make travel to bus stops safer. She listed examples of rural routes that may be affected in poor road conditions, including Perrysville Road, Brewer Road, Daisy Lane and Denmark Road, and said staff will message families on those routes if buses will not run.
Board members asked whether students who cannot get to school due to lack of transportation would be excused; Parker said absences would be excused when transportation is impossible, and that students who completed assigned e-learning work would be counted present for the day. Trustees agreed to bring e-learning and attendance-counting practices back as an agenda item in January for further review.
What happens next: District staff will prepare family-facing communications about the two-hour delay policy and rural-route procedures and will place e-learning policy review on the agenda in January.
