Snow day waiver approved

Three Rivers Community Schools Superintendent Ron Moag said the district was granted a state-issued waiver and three of its snow days will not have to be made up in June.

Moag said the district has experienced 10 days of class cancellations this school year due to weather-related conditions. There are six days built in as automatically forgiven, but anything up to and including three days beyond those half dozen days requires a Michigan Department of Education waiver, Moag explained.

That leaves the 2,200-student district with just one makeup day at the end of the school year. Moag, however, said legislatures are working on a plan that would not require makeup days as a result of the five-day period declared a state of emergency by Gov. Whitmer the last week of January.

Three Rivers’ originally scheduled last day of school is June 7.