Change in law required to help schools make up Matthew days

Name: Change in law required to help schools make up Matthew days
Uploaded: 2016-10-19T22:06:21.000Z
Duration: 1 min 28 s
Description: State law requires that schools provide either 185 days or 1,025 hours of instruction every year. Only the legislature can change that requirement, and that is what Gov. Pat McCrory suggested it do in a speech Wednesday about hurricane recovery.

State law requires that schools provide either 185 days or 1,025 hours of instruction every year. Only the legislature can change that requirement, and that is what Gov. Pat McCrory suggested it do in a speech Wednesday about hurricane recovery.

Posted 10/19/2016, 10:06:21 PM Updated 9/23/2025, 7:51:32 PM

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>>> SCHOOL DISTRICTS ARE SLOWLY

RETURNING TO NORMAL AFTER BEING

AFFECTED BY HURRICANE MATTHEW.

SOME MISSED DAYS AND OTHERS, A

WEEK OR MORE.

HERE LESLIE HAS MORE ON THE

MAKEUP PROCESS.

LAURA?

>> Reporter: GERALD, WE HEARD

A LOT FROM THE PEOPLE IN THE

AREAS FLOODED BY MATTHEW AND

HOW THE STATE WILL DEAL WITH

THE MISSED SCHOOL DAYS.

WE ASKED TODAY AND THE ANSWER

WAS IT DEPENDS ON YOUR

DISTRICT.

SOME DISTRICT WON'T RESUME

CLASSES UNTIL NEXT WEEK LIKE IN

LENOIR WHERE THE ROADS AND

BRIDGES WERE BADLY DAMAGED.

THAT IS TWO FULL WEEKS OF

CLASSES.

OTHER DISTRICTS ARE JUST

GETTING BACK TO CLASS TODAY AND

TOMORROW.

A SPOKESWOMAN SAID THAT STATE

LAW REQUIRES 185 DAYS OR 1025

HOUR OF INTRODUCTION EVERY

YEAR.

SO THAT GIVES SCHOOL DISTRICTS

BUILT-IN FLEXIBILITY, THEY SAY

AND SOME MAY HAVE ENOUGH

INCLEMENT WEATHER DAYS AND

WORKDAYS IN THE CALENDARS TO

COVER THE NEEDED TIME.

FOR THOSE THAT DON'T OR THE

HARDEST-HIT AREAS, THERE IS

NOTHING THAT DPI OR THE

GOVERNOR CAN DO TO CHANGE THE

MINIUM REQUIREMENT.

ONLY STATE LAWMAKERS CAN ALLOW

THE EXCEPTIONS TO IT.

IT COULD HAPPEN WHEN THEY COME

BACK TO TOWN NEXT JANUARY.

>> LAURA, THANK YOU.

>>> THE ONLY DISTRICT THAT