Richmond-area schools add snow makeup days

State of play: Under state law, public school districts must provide at least 180 instructional days (or 990 instructional hours).

• And most Richmond school districts build makeup snow days into their calendars to use if needed.
• Plus, with the January storm, most districts shifted to online learning, so they will still log instructional hours.
• Still, with 10 days (and more for Hanover) missed, some extra days are needed.

Zoom in: Here's how Richmond-area school districts are making up for the time.

In Richmond, students will now go to school on April 6 (aka Easter Monday) and Feb. 17, which was scheduled to be a teacher work day, The Richmonder reported.

• Superintendent Jason Kamras asked the Richmond School Board to also make Presidents Day (Feb. 16) and the Islamic holiday Eid al-Fitr (March 20) full instructional days, but the board pushed back on the plan because of virtual instruction during the snow.

In Chesterfield, Presidents Day will be a full school day and three previously scheduled half-days (Feb. 6, March 19 and April 17) are full instructional days, per the county's social media.

Hanover added Jan. 12 (for the December storm) and will also add Feb. 16 and March 20.

Fun fact: Hanover has planned for 13 possible weather days, and it'll rely on remote learning if it needs to use more, per its website.

And Henrico will add none.

"Henrico County Public Schools used a combination of extra instructional time previously built into the calendar ('banked time') and remote learning days to recoup missed days," district spokesperson Eileen Cox said in a statement.

What we're watching: The weather report for the rest of winter.