Nearly 40% of schools converted snow days to online learning days, a survey found. Other schools say let kids be kids, despite COVID-19.

Schools Switch Up Snow Day Policies in the Era of COVID — What Parents Should Know. Some school districts have nixed snow days so as not to sacrifice instructional time, ...

The Mahwah school district in New Jersey last month made a splash nationwide when it announced that it would continue to “close” school as usual this year during snow events, even if students ...

Pandemic home learning efforts could spell the end of snow days. Up to 40% of school districts now say they won't cancel classes when the weather is bad.

Pandemic home learning efforts could spell the end of traditional snow days. Up to 40% of school districts now say they won't cancel classes when the weather is bad.

Loudoun County, Va., averaged four snow days a school year in the 1970s, three in the ’80s, five and a half in the ’90s and 2000s, and seven days in the 2010s.

A New Jersey school district wants to keep at least one winter tradition from the pre-Covid days intact: the snow day. Mahwah Township Public Schools, a school district with approximately 3,000 ...

While all schools have snow days built into their calendar, which requires 1,044 hours of class time per year, the state now allows schools to provide at-home instruction on snow days that count ...

School districts in northwest Ohio and southeast Michigan have canceled classes for students, in some cases for multiple days, because of frigid temperatures, gusty winds and snow.

The school board would need to approve a snow day with no subsequent makeup day, Holtzman said. But not all districts opt for remote learning when there is inclement weather.