Statewide Iowa — The mounting number of snow days for the state’s school district’s has some asking if technology could be used to make up the time.
Iowa Department of Education director Ryan Wise says that question has come up a lot lately.
State law requires districts to either have 180-days of school or one-thousand-80 hours.
Wise says the question has come up a lot with the number of canceled days this year — and because schools have been trying out e-learning.
The discussion of online learning has been talked about too for rural districts with declining enrollment as a way to beef up their offerings.
He says having e-learning count as actual school hours is still in the development stage.
Some school districts have had 10 or more days of classes canceled this year by the weather.
