Anchorage School District students will be in class for 30 minutes longer than normal from Jan. 30 through March 9 to partially make up for this winter's unprecedented string of snow days.
A snowplow in Anchorage on Dec. 12, 2022. Three back-to-back snowstorms in December closed schools for an unprecedented number of days.
Anchorage students have had a total of seven snow days this year — six of them in just two weeks when the city got hit by aExtending the school days by 30 minutes makes up for three full school days. The other two will be made up by turning Feb. 22 and 23 — which were half days set aside for parent-teacher conferences — into full days and making a scheduled in-service day on Feb. 24 an in-school day.
Anchorage Superintendent Jharrett Bryantt said there was no perfect plan to address the “unprecedented” number of snow days, but the district’s plan was better than extending the school year into summer.
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