cps announces additional school days for this year
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CPS announces additional school days for this year
CHICAGO (Sun-Times Media Wire) -
This winter's terrible cold means that Chicago Public School students will attend classes until June19, three days longer than originally planned, the district announced Friday afternoon.
CPS students now have to report to class on June 18 and 19 to make up for days off on February 2and 19, when a huge amount of snow and then record-breaking dangerous cold shut down schoolsfor business, the Chicago Sun-Times is reporting.
The district's 396,000 students have to make up four bad weather days so far this year. Classes werecancelled on January 7 and 8 when wind chills pushed temperatures below zero -- one of those dayswas made up on January 30, a planned teacher training day, the other was pushed to June 17, whichwas intended from the beginning of the school year as the first day of summer vacation.
Summer vacation now begins after classes on Friday June 19 for students and at the end of the day
on June 24 for teachers. Summer school still is slated to begin on June 25.
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