Lucas Gage arrives by bus for the first day of in-person kindergarten at Richmond Elementary on Tuesday, March 2. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter)
The school year will now end on June 17 for thousands of students in the Salem-Keizer School District.
District leaders added two days to the year to make up for school closures following February’s ice storm. The year had been scheduled to end June 15.
They announced the calendar change Monday along with other modifications as the district prepares to resume in-person classes part-time for middle and high school students in mid-April.
Local schools were closed the week of Feb. 15 because of widespread power and internet outages across Marion and Polk counties. Students missed four days of school following the President’s Day holiday.
The district added only two days back to avoid pushing classes into the next week in June “which would potentially delay or limit the summer school programs that are in development,” district spokesman Aaron Harada said in an email.
-Rachel Alexander
