LANSING, MI (WTVB) – Michigan schools offering online instruction during the state shutdown of schools won’t be able to count any of that time toward the requirements that schools provide 180 days of instruction.
That’s the ruling in an email the Michigan Department of Education sent to school leaders Friday.
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer last week ordered all schools closed until at least April 5, 2020 to try and curb the spread of coronavirus.
“There is no mechanism to earn instructional time during a period of mandated school closure,” said the memo, written by deputy superintendents Venessa Keesler and Kyle Guerrant.
The schools are encouraged “to offer supplemental learning opportunities to students using distance learning methods as they see fit.”
