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North Providence school leaders praise storm response, seek waiver for Feb. 23–24 emergency days
Summary
The North Providence School Committee praised municipal crews and district staff for last week’s blizzard response, approved the 2026–27 calendar with a hold for a possible state primary date change, and gave the superintendent preapproval to submit a waiver request to the commissioner of education for Feb. 23–24 emergency/travel-ban days.
Superintendent Gojo asked the North Providence School Committee on Monday to preapprove a letter asking the state commissioner of education to waive two emergency/travel-ban days from the district’s school-calendar requirement, and committee members spent much of the meeting thanking municipal crews and educators for their work during a historic blizzard.
The request, which the committee approved by voice vote, seeks to include Feb. 23 and Feb. 24 — days the district said were under a state travel ban — in a state waiver that would remove the need for make-up days. “The commissioner called me,” Superintendent Gojo said, and “she…
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