As many area streets remained blanketed with snow Monday and the threat of more winter weather loomed in the forecast, area school districts announced more closings.
Monday afternoon, Manassas City Public Schools officials announced the city's schools will be closed Tuesday and Wednesday.
Prince William County and Manassas Park City school officials announced that their schools will be closed Tuesday.
Manassas school officials also canceled a School Board meeting scheduled for Tuesday and a budget work session planned for Wednesday.
Prince William County officials canceled a budget public hearing planned for Monday night.
Schools in all three area school districts were also closed Monday due to the snow.
Snow days now could mean more school days later for some area students.
Today will be the seventh snow day of the school year for Prince William County students.
According to Virginia law, the school year in every school division must be at least 180 days or 990 hours.
In Manassas Park, two extra snow days are built into the calendar, but the school year must be 182 days, according to the school division's own policy.
There, school officials already announced that President's Day, Feb. 15, will now be a school day for students. Additional snow make-up days could also be planned.
In Manassas, extra days and hours are built into the schedule to allow for some snow days. But because of recent closings, President's Day will also now be a school day there.
In Prince William County, a few extra days are built into the calendar and schools use a longer instructional day to meet state requirements, so typically no make-up snow days are needed.
In county schools, the instructional day is six hours long, said school division spokesman Ken Blackstone. That means, the school year of a minimum of 180 instructional days has 1,080 instructional hours. That gives the school division 90 extra instructional hours, or about 15 instructional days, over the state minimum, built into their school year.
"By providing more than the minimum instructional hours, it does provide adequate time to meet the state minimum teaching requirements," Blackstone.
Staff writer Amanda Stewart can be reached at 703-878-8014.
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