Pinellas schools won’t implement hurricane makeup days

Written on 09/13/2023
Jeffrey S. Solochek, Tampa Bay Times


Pinellas County public schools have no plans to implement hurricane makeup days, despite canceling classes for two days as Hurricane Idalia bore down on Florida’s west coast. last week.

The district calendar, which set aside four dates as possibilities, included enough instructional time that schools did not fall below the state-mandated minimum, spokesperson Isabel Mascareñas said.

“It doesn’t look like we need to make up the days we took off,” she said.

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