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Miami-Dade Schools Add Days For Hurricane Irma
School officials added five new regular school days to the 2017-18 school calendar to make up for the seven days lost during Hurricane Irma.
MIAMI, FL — The Miami-Dade County School Board has added five new regular school days to the 2017-18 school calendar to make up for the seven days lost during Hurricane Irma. Meeting on Wednesday, the board converted five special session dates to regular school days. These include two teacher planning days and three planned secondary early release days.
"As a result of Hurricane Irma, Miami-Dade County Public Schools had to cancel seven days of school last month. Even with the loss of the seven instructional days, the district exceeds the minimum instructional hours required by the state in order to participate in the Florida Education Finance Program," district officials said. "However, the loss of instructional time resulted in impacts to student learning and therefore adjustments to the school calendar were necessary to return this valuable time to students and teachers." (For more local news, click here to sign up for real-time news alerts and newsletters from Miami Patch, and click here to find your local Florida Patch. If you have an iPhone, click here to get the free Patch iPhone app.)
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Five dates were converted to regular school days on the Revised Elementary and Secondary School Calendar — 2017-18 and the Revised Juvenile Justice Center School Calendar — 2017-18.
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The following dates are now regular school days:
- Jan. 19, 2018 (previously a teacher planning day)
- Feb. 15, 2018 (previously a secondary early release day)
- April 19, 2018 (previously a secondary early release day)
- April 20, 2018 (previously a teacher planning day)
- May 17, 2018 (previously a secondary early release day)
Two dates were also converted to regular school days on the Revised Adult/Vocational Education School Calendar — 2017-18. The affected dates are:
- Jan. 19, 2018 (previously a teacher planning day); and
- April 20, 2018 (previously a teacher planning day)
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