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2A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 2017 State allows schools to write off 14 hours of instructional time State Dennis Richardson’s new designee to the Board of Education, said the board should not count time missed for inclement weather as instructional time. “We are already at the lowest in the country in terms of instructional time, and I don’t want you to eas- ily give up that precious time,” Sordyl said, before a unanimous vote in favor of the temporary rule. Sordyl does not have a vote on the board. Board of Education mem- ber Jerry Colonna said the temporary rule provides relief to districts that had different situations during the storms. “This is one of those things where we want to be helpful instead of just com- pliance monitors,” Colonna said. “I resist the leap that this says we do not honor instructional time. I think we honor the differences around the state, and we want to be helpful in them being suc- Temporary rule to respond to snowstorms By PARIS ACHEN Capital Bureau SALEM — The Ore- gon Board of Education has approved a temporary rule to allow schools to opt out of 14 hours of state-mandated instructional time for this school year for inclement weather or facility closures. The board unanimously passed the rule Thursday at the request of several school districts that closed schools for several days in December and January due to snow and ice storms statewide. “It’s really unusual cir- cumstances that is making us consider this flexibility,” said Salam Noor, deputy superintendent of the Oregon Department of Education. Kim Sordyl, Secretary of cessful in what they want to do.” The rule is effective only for this school year and requires school districts to receive approval at a public meeting of their local school board. School districts must also provide a written request to the Department of Education, explaining why they cannot meet the min- imum standard for instruc- tional time. “It’s not enough to solve the problem so school dis- tricts still will be required to add back days to comply with the minimum instruc- tional time,” said Emily Nazarov, a Department of Education operations policy analyst. Some school districts, such as Beaverton, shut- tered schools for nearly two weeks. Others, such as Hermiston, have pushed back their graduation date by several days to make up missed time, according to officials in those districts. Schools in Clatsop County have only had a few snow days. “We were just notified that Portland Public Schools is considering holding school during s pring break and Saturdays and extend- ing school days to make up the time,” Noor said. Until 2015, the 14-hour waiver had been regularly available to schools to make up time for missed days due to inclement weather. That year, the Board of Educa- tion nixed the provision in order to protect instruc- tional time, which is among the lowest amount required nationwide. Schools are required to provide at least 900 hours of instruction annually to ele- mentary and middle school pupils and 990 hours to high school students, except seniors who need only 966. The Capital Bureau is a collaboration between EO Media Group and Pamplin Media Group. Danny Miller/The Daily Astorian Henry Hanson climbs up the Astoria Column hill as snow falls in Astoria in January on one of the few snow days for local schools. FIVE-DAY FORECAST FOR ASTORIA TONIGHT SATURDAY SUNDAY MONDAY 55 40 38 Partly cloudy 53 40 52 37 Cloudy with a little rain in the afternoon Partly sunny TUESDAY 50 37 Cloudy Considerable cloudiness Disaster declared for storms in Josephine and Lane counties The Daily Astorian ALMANAC REGIONAL WEATHER Shown is tomorrow's weather. Temperatures are tonight's lows and tomorrow's highs. ASTORIA 38/55 Astoria through Thursday. Temperatures High/low ....................................... 50°/36° Normal high/low ........................... 51°/38° Record high ............................ 63° in 1983 Record low ............................. 16° in 1957 Precipitation Thursday .......................................... 0.02" Month to date ................................... 5.70" Normal month to date ....................... 8.72" Year to date ...................................... 5.70" Normal year to date .......................... 8.72" Tillamook 36/57 Salem 31/51 Newport 39/54 Jan 27 First Full Feb 3 Coos Bay 37/56 Last Feb 10 Source: Jim Todd, OMSI TOMORROW'S TIDES Astoria / Port Docks Time 7:33 a.m. 8:08 p.m. Low 2.8 ft. -0.5 ft. City Atlanta Boston Chicago Denver Des Moines Detroit El Paso Fairbanks Honolulu Indianapolis Kansas City Las Vegas Los Angeles Memphis Miami Nashville New Orleans New York Oklahoma City Philadelphia St. Louis Salt Lake City San Francisco Seattle Washington, DC Hi 48 44 31 39 31 36 48 21 82 33 40 49 63 48 83 45 56 45 50 47 37 28 57 50 46 Ontario 14/25 Klamath Falls 11/37 Lakeview 2/35 Ashland 27/51 Associated Press REGIONAL CITIES City Baker City Bend Brookings Eugene Ilwaco Klamath Falls Medford Newberg Newport North Bend Hi 24 39 54 50 53 34 51 50 54 55 Today Lo 8 20 39 32 43 11 29 32 39 37 W c pc s pc pc s s pc pc pc Hi 24 41 53 50 53 37 52 49 54 56 Sat. 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Lo 32 22 31 34 32 44 20 33 31 25 W pc c pc c pc pc c c pc c TOMORROW'S NATIONAL WEATHER NATIONAL CITIES Today Lo 31 32 24 17 26 28 26 9 66 24 26 33 45 31 58 30 43 32 27 30 29 14 41 36 31 Baker 8/24 Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2017 Tonight's Sky: The new moon (4:07 p.m.) will be located on the same side of the earth as the sun and will not be visible in the night sky. High 8.2 ft. 9.4 ft. La Grande 19/35 Roseburg 33/54 Brookings 38/55 Feb 18 John Day 24/41 Bend 20/41 Medford 29/52 UNDER THE SKY Time 2:00 a.m. 1:12 p.m. Prineville 18/39 Lebanon 31/51 Eugene 32/50 Sunset tonight ........................... 5:13 p.m. Sunrise Saturday ........................ 7:43 a.m. Moonrise today ........................... 7:22 a.m. Moonset today ........................... 5:19 p.m. Pendleton 22/35 The Dalles 30/37 Portland 31/48 SUN AND MOON New President Donald Trump has declared a disaster for the storms and flooding in two Oregon counties in December. The declaration makes federal money available to help state and local govern- ments with repairs in Jose- phine and Lane counties. Damage estimates are about $16 million. “This disaster declaration will provide much needed financial assistance to two counties that were hardest hit by severe weather last December,” Oregon Office of Emergency Management Director Andrew Phelps said in a statement. “We will also receive mitigation grant Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day. W s pc c pc c sf s c s c pc s s pc pc pc pc pc s pc pc c s pc pc Weather (W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain, sf-snow fl urries, sn-snow, i-ice. OBITUARY POLICY The Daily Astorian publishes paid obituaries. The obituary can include a small photo and, for veterans, a fl ag symbol at no charge. The deadline for all obituaries is 9 a.m. the business day prior. Obituaries may be edited for spelling, proper punctuation and style. Death notices and upcoming services will be published at no charge. Notices must be submitted by 9 a.m. the day of publication. RICHLAND, Wash. — Parties in a lawsuit over employee concerns about exposure to chemical vapors at the Hanford Nuclear Res- ervation are headed to mediation. The Tri-City Herald reported that both plaintiffs and defendants have asked a federal judge to move back the lawsuit’s trial date in order to allow them to pur- sue a resolution out of court. Dozens of Hanford work- ers have been sickened by vapors escaping from under- ground nuclear waste stor- age tanks. The tanks contain wastes left over from the production of plutonium for nuclear weapons. Workers who smell the vapors are told to leave the area and are offered medi- cal checks. Nearly all work- ers are medically cleared to return to work the same day. Hanford for decades made plutonium for nuclear weapons, and the site near Richland in southeastern Washington is now engaged in a massive cleanup of the resulting radioactive wastes. The wastes are stored in 177 massive underground tanks, and it is vapors escaping from some of those tanks that are thought to be making workers sick. The vapors are invisible and are not radioactive. Their exact content is not known because the exact contents of the tanks, some dating back to World War II, are not known. Transit district seeks new volunteers for budget committee The Daily Astorian The Sunset Empire Trans- portation District Board of Commissioners is seek- ing volunteers from Clatsop County, who are registered voters, to serve on the dis- trict b udget c ommittee. The committee is com- prised of seven district board members, and seven community members, who are appointed by the Board of Commissioners and serve a three-year term. There are currently two community member positions open. Budget c ommittee meet- ings are held up to three times a year. Those inter- ested in serving are asked to submit a letter of interest by Feb. 15. Letters can be emailed to jeff@ridethebus. org, dropped off at the Asto- ria Transit Center or mailed to Sunset Empire Transpor- tation District, 900 Marine Drive, Astoria, OR 97103. For information, contact Jeff Hazen at 503-861-5399 or jeff@ridethebus.org. DEATH Jan. 17, 2017 COLE, Gregory Neal, 66, of Seaside, died in Portland. Hughes-Ransom Mortuary & Crematory in Seaside is in charge of the arrangements. CORRECTION Bride’s dad restored car — In a story on Page 10 of T he Daily Astorian’s wed- ding supplement Wednesday about the Courtney Rudat and Kevin Berry wedding, LOTTERIES the 1930 Hupmobile was restored by the bride’s step- father, Randy Hansen. The article had attributed the restoration to the groom’s father. PUBLIC MEETINGS TUESDAY Cannon Beach Tourism and Arts Commission, 9 a.m., City Hall, 163 E. 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