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A Message from the Superintendent: APS Make-up Days Set
February 25, 2011
We surveyed parents and district employees to get feedback about how to make up the four days of instruction that were missed Feb. 1-4 due to weather and the statewide gas shortage.
This morning I informed the APS Board of Education that the district plans to make up the four days of instruction that were missed Feb. 1-4 due to weather and the statewide gas shortage as follows:
- The district will hold classes for students on the previously scheduled Vernal Holiday on April 22;
- The district will hold classes for students on the two previously scheduled parent-teacher conference days;
- The district will apply to the PED for a waiver of the fourth day of instruction because the governor asked schools and state offices to close on this day. If the waiver is not approved, the district will hold classes for students on May 31.
I noted to the Board of Education that the district will have to go back and negotiate with unions including those for maintenance, police, food service and secretaries, because their contracts had provided April 22 as a paid holiday. I plan to ask them to take another day as a paid holiday, but we have not determined a date.
The Board asked that the administration work with teachers to hold parent-teacher conferences either before or after school.
