Montgomery County Public Schools students will have to make up one extra day at the end of the school year, making the last day of school Monday, June 15.
Maryland State Superintendent Lillian Lowery approved a two-day waiver request from MCPS, which means the school system won’t have to make up all three extra days it missed this school year due to winter weather.
The school system builds in an extra four days into its calendar in case of school being canceled due to harsh weather or other circumstances. However, this year the school system had seven days canceled, meaning it would have to make up three days to meet the 180-instructional day minimum required by the state.
Interim MCPS superintendent Larry Bowers announced the waiver at the county’s Board of Education meeting Monday night. Bowers originally asked for a three-day waiver from the state so the school calendar would end on June 12, as originally scheduled, but revised that to a two-day waiver because he said Lowery wanted schools “to make some effort to make up lost instructional days.” Bowers said making up all three days would cost the school system about $2 million.
That Monday, June 15 will be an early release day and the teachers professional day will be pushed back to June 16.
