Here's how Broward schools will make up time lost from historic flooding - South Florida Sun Sentinel

Broward high school seniors, your school career will go longer than you expected.

Seniors who graduate before June 6 are going to be asked to return to school just once more — even if they already have had a diploma in hand for days.

Broward schools needs to make up time after flooding in the eastern county shut down schools for two days last month. School officials requested the state waive hours in return for turning an early-release day into a full-day and also “adjusting the final day of classes for high school seniors.”

The state mandates 900 hours of classroom time for grades 4 through 12.

To do that, only a few hours will need to be made up for most of Broward students: June 8, the last day of school in Broward, will now be a full day instead of a scheduled early release day to make up some of the lost time.

But then there’s the issue of graduating seniors, because they traditionally disappear for the last scheduled week of school.

For many, that’s because graduation takes place as early as the previous weekend. But now, seniors at “traditional” high schools, will be asked to report back for one more day, either June 5 or June 6.

That will include schools such as J.P. Taravella High in Coral Springs, which graduates Friday, June 2; Coral Glades High in Coral Springs, which graduates Saturday, June 3; and Deerfield Beach High, which graduates Monday, June 5.

Those students will be requested to return to school June 6.

For schools such as Fort Lauderdale High, which graduates Tuesday, June 6, and South Broward High in Hollywood, which graduates Thursday, June 8, those students will be asked to come in June 5, even though seniors would traditionally not attend at all during the last week on the district calendar.

But Florida officials have granted a waiver that would have required even more hours to be replaced.

In a letter dated Monday, Manny Diaz Jr., Florida’s Commissioner of Education, wrote Earlean Smiley, the interim superintendent, granting Broward’s request for the waiver, acknowledging there’s simply not enough time left in the school year to make up any additional time.

Diaz writes that the commissioner has the authority to alter required instructional hours “when the loss of instructional hours is caused by a bona fide emergency and when it is not feasible to make up the lost days or hours.”

Only grades 4 and 5, where elementary school has shortened days, lost the required minimum hours that needed the state waiver.

Broward’s schools closed for classes and after-school activities April 13 and 14 following heavy rain and flooding.

Damaged schools, all in Fort Lauderdale, included Castle Hill Elementary, Dillard Elementary, Dillard 6-12, William Dandy Middle, Whidden Rogers Education Center and Seagull Alternative High School.

Broward had added hours at other times during the school year to make up time from abruptly canceled school. Early release days scheduled for January and April became regular school days to make up hours lost when hurricanes slammed elsewhere in the state last fall and school was canceled two days for each of the two storms.

The Broward School Board will formally vote on the changes Tuesday.

Lisa J. Huriash can be reached at lhuriash@sunsentinel.com. Follow on Twitter @LisaHuriash

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