Longer Days Coming For Lincoln Public School Students

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Lincoln Public Schools schedules to replace lost snow day.

The Lincoln Public Schools (LPS) has announced plans to make up time
lost due to inclement weather in recent weeks. Although the District
lost six days due to the cancellation of school, it is only necessary to
make up one day to meet the mandatory state minimum hour requirement.
The 2009-10 LPS student calendar had five additional days over the
minimum state requirement built into its approved schedule.

LPS has chosen to extend the K-12 student day by 36 minutes to cover the
extra snow day necessitated by last week's weather conditions for two
weeks beginning February 1, 2010.

The 36 minutes will be allocated to a 15-minute earlier start and a
21-minute later ending to each school day from February 1 through
February 12. This means, early start elementary schools will begin at
8:00 a.m. and end at 3:14 p.m. Late start elementary schools will begin
at 8:45 a.m. and end at 3:59 p.m. Middle schools will start at 7:45 a.m.
and end at 3:19 p.m. High schools and focus programs will communicate
specific changes in hours to their students and families, however, the
revised high school schedules will be on each school's web site by
Monday noon.

Pre-school schedules will be developed and announced at a later date.

According to Nancy Biggs, Associate Superintendent for Human Resources,
LPS has met with representatives of the Lincoln Education Association
and there is agreement “this is the best way to adjust for the loss
instructional time.”