Madison students will not have to make up missed days

Madison City Schools will not have to make up the four days missed due to the April 27 tornados that caused major power outages in the area.

Within hours of being sent, State Superintendent of Education Joe Morton approved the board’s request to relieve the missed days.

Madison students are already making up six days missed due to hazardous road conditions caused by wintery weather in early February.

The senate voted 29-0 to approve Senate Bill 271, which gives school systems more options in making up missed days because to storms.

Under the law, an affected school system that closed and lost instructional days, employee days or both, could ask the state superintendent for relief from meeting instructional-day or work-day requirements, if the governor declares a state of emergency for any part of Alabama.