Schools adjust schedules due to snow days

A new state statute is easing the calendars of northwoods school districts that saw their scheduled buffeted by winter snowstorms. Antigo, Elcho and White Lake are among districts statewide taking advantage of a recently enacted state law eliminating the requirement that students attend school for at least 180 days a year. The law, which took effect immediately after its passage earlier this spring, came at an opportune time, as districts were wrangling with how to make up days lost to winter snow, ice, cold and—in Antigo’s case—water line freeze-ups. Full story: Antigo Daily Journal