Online school days are now allowed only due to pandemic-related reasons, but a Senate committee endorsed a bill allowing them for weather and other emergencies.
Traditionally, an official school day in New Jersey is constituted by an in-school presence, but that was clouded by the COVID-era stipulation that three or more days of a health emergency would allow virtual days to count.
A Monmouth County school district has some parents worried after they issued a memo that if any more school days are missed this year because of snow, they will be made up on Saturdays.