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Cleveland County Board adopts plan to reclaim instructional hours after heavy snow
Summary
The board voted 7–2 Feb. 9 to approve a superintendent plan that converts an early-release day to full time, adds a remote instructional day, converts a teacher work day to a student day and adds minutes to daily schedules to make up hours lost to recent inclement weather.
The Cleveland County Board of Education on Feb. 9 approved a multi-part plan to make up instructional time lost during recent snow and ice closures, voting 7–2 to adopt Superintendent Dr. Fisher’s recommendation.
Dr. Fisher told the board that the district’s calendar and Board Policy 3330 (minimum school day 6 hours, 50 minutes) and the state baseline of 1,025 instructional hours required a recovery plan after multiple zone closures and two-hour delays reduced instructional time. He said the district had 31 instructional hours “banked” in the calendar but faced deficits of roughly 17 hours in some attendance zones and 21 hours in others.
The adopted plan calls for four changes: converting the early-release day…
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