Indiana State Superintendent Glenda Ritz is looking for ways to help schools make up snow days before testing starts, and she’s getting creative.

Schools might not have to make up all the days they’ve missed, Ritz said, if they can present a workable plan to make the lost time up by adding to the school day or even by having students make up work online. …

She said if there was no state board objection, she was inclined to allow school districts to apply for waivers that would let them make up instructional days lost to bad weather in hours rather than in full days.

“We’re getting into a situation here in Indiana where we have many schools that have missed many days of instruction and they just want to be sure they’ve gotten things taught before they are assessed,” she said. “We want to give as many options as we can.”

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