By Liz Bowie, The Baltimore Sun9:03 p.m. EDT, March 25, 2014
A Maryland school superintendent wouldn’t ordinarily give local systems a pass on the requirement that public school students go to school for 180 days a year.
But these have not been ordinary times.
The seemingly endless winter, with its unusual number of snow days, has raised the specter of students going to school into the last week of June….
…The district with the greatest need for a waiver — Garrett County, which has lost 20 days this school year — is waiting to see what April brings before filing a request, said William Cappe, education program specialist at the Maryland State Department of Education. Garrett had built six weather days into its calendar.
