Making up snow days a challenge for school districts

Snow, flu and floods have forced Kentucky school districts to cancel so many school days that scheduling make-up days has become a challenge.

Knox County in southeastern Kentucky has missed 27 days, and many other Eastern Kentucky districts are approaching 20 days, the level at which they can ask for a state waiver from making up all of the days.

Fayette County, which has missed six days, announced its revised calendar Wednesday.

Meanwhile, the state Department of Education is exploring whether to extend the statewide standardized testing window into May.

The planned test window was April 19 to 30, said department spokeswoman Lisa Gross, and the state is negotiating with its private contractor, Measured Progress, to come up with some options that would allow scores to be returned before the start of the next school year.
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