Wake County schools will be able to use remote learning next year before exhausting all banked days and teacher workdays.
Superintendent Robert Taylor said last week he wanted to be able to use remote learning if he knows a couple of days ahead of time when a storm is coming that's likely to close schools.
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He wouldn't use it when the forecast isn't as clear.
On Tuesday, system officials told the school board's policy committee they would be making that change to their internal procedures. It doesn't require a school board vote, but board members said they wanted to be apprised of any changes.
The school system's internal policy for the last three years has been to use all banked days and teacher workdays before considering remote learning.
Remote learning would be asynchronous, so assignments and lessons posted online or paper packets given to students ahead of time. It would not be live lessons, like the way many students were asked to learn during the Covid-19 pandemic.
State law limits schools to only five remote learning days.
With the plethora of snow days, many other nearby school districts did remote learning, such as Durham Public Schools and Cumberland County Schools.
Without procedures in place to conduct remote learning, Wake didn't do any remote learning this year and had to reschedule school on multiple teacher workdays and even Saturdays for some year-round schools.