A snow plow was busy clearing roads during a recent winter storm. Will Perkins/Glasgow News 1
By MICHAEL CRIMMINS
Glasgow News 1
The Kentucky bill allowing the potential lengthening of school days is one step closer to becoming law.
House Bill 241 recently passed the House by a vote of 82 to 7 and will make a stop at the Kentucky Senate before potentially landing on Governor Andy Beshear’s desk.
As previously reported the bill offered a possible way for public schools to meet the required 170 student attendance days since many school districts throughout the commonwealth had multi-day closures due to the severe weather and are coming to the limit of allotted ten Non-Traditional Instruction days, which is “a program that encourages the continuation of learning on days when the entire district is closed.”
Barren County Schools has used five NTI days, Glasgow Independent Schools has used three and Caverna Independent Schools has used seven.
The bill will head to the Senate with the amendment allowing the Commissioner of Education to grant up to five “disaster relief student attendance days.”
Due to the bill also being a disaster declaration, it will go into effect upon its passage into law. The two-page bill can be viewed here.
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