making up school days

[mrthuse]

In NJ, regardless of the circumstances, public schools can not graduate (or otherwise end the school year) before the 180th day of classess. School must be in session for at least 180 days. If your district has snow days built into its calendar, an emergency called by the Governor uses up one of them. If they're not built into the calendar (my situation), an extra day has to be added to the calendar. Sometimes it's at the end of the year, sometimes a spring break is reduced by one day and sometimes creative administrators think up other ways of making up the day. But make it up, they must.