School Closing

School Closings For Monday

... should communicate with their supervisors on appropriate leave options. Hickory Public Schools will be closed on Monday, Jan. 9 for students, faculty and staff. The HPS Board of Education meeting on Monday will also be postponed until Thursday, Jan. 12. The meeting will start at 5:30 p.m. and be held at the Professional Development Lab/Resource Center (the old Longview Elementary). For questions about this meeting, contact Ginger Robertson at HPS: 828-322-2855. Due to the recent winter storm, Newton-Conover City Schools will be closed for students on Monday, Jan. 9, with an optional workday for staff, according to school officials. Kid Connection will be offered at North Newton Elementary School Monday for the snow day beginning at 9 a.m. and closing at 6 p.m. “We will continue to monitor the weather and road conditions, and consult Catawba County Emergency Management, the Newton and Conover Police Departments, and ...

Wake County Closing Schools Monday And Announcing Makeup Days

... ▪ The two single-gender leadership academies will have classes on Feb. 21, a Tuesday. ▪ The Vernon Malone College and Career Academy and the Wake Early College of Health and Sciences will have classes March 13, a Monday. School officials decided not to make up the snow day by turning two early release days on Jan. 20 and Feb. 10 into full days of classes. Students on year-round track 4 and those at Barwell Road and Walnut Creek elementary schools don’t have to make up Monday since they were already scheduled to have the day off. It’s not clear when Wake students will return to school since the National Weather Service has issued a winter weather advisory until 12 p.m. Tuesday due to the road conditions. But Wake has built into its calendar the ability to absorb 11 more snow days for traditional-calendar schools and not cut into spring break. According to Wake’s calendar , the next three makeup days for traditional-calendar students would be three teacher workdays: Feb. 20, March 31 and May 12. After that, Wake would take advantage of how it has more than the state minimum of 1,025 ...