West Central Valley School District Superintendent Lance Ridgely reports the West Central Valley School Board held a special meeting Wednesday night to address the issue of weather-related delays & cancellations for the 2018-19 school year. Ridgely says “Due to the number of weather-related school closings/delays/early releases we need to make up some of the time that we’ve lost. Our total lost time at this point is 55 hours (7 full days and some late starts and early dismissals).”

To compensate for the lost time, he says the Board approved the following adjustments to the 18-19 calendar.

1. Students will attend school 4/19, 5/28, 5/29. These will be full days of school and recover 19.5 instructional hours

2. The last day of school for students will be 5/30. This will be a 1:30 dismissal and bring the total instructional hours recovered to 24.

3. Students will attend 4/3, 4/17 & 5/8 as full days of school. This brings our total instructional hours recovered to 33.

4. Any further weather cancellations (full days) will be added to the end of the school year.

The remainder of the hours missed are accounted for through time spent during Parent Teacher conferences last fall and this spring.