Columbia Public Schools students to end classes Friday
Matthew Sanders
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)
Columbia Public Schools will have its last day of classes on Friday.
CPS wrote in an email to students’ families that state officials gave the district a waiver allowing classes to be out of session next Tuesday. The district had planned for a shortened day Tuesday — one day after Memorial Day — to meet state requirements for instruction time before the waiver was granted.
Friday will be an early release day, the district says.
The email thanks families for being patient and the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education for reevaluating the case and granted the waiver after initially denying it.