Today, March 3, 2023 all schools will dismiss two (2) hours earlier than the normal dismissal time. The early dismissal is due to a Winter Storm Warning developing this afternoon.
Please see the following DFT/DPSCD contract language:
Article Twenty-Five: Emergency School Closures: Emergency Weather Conditions
"When individual schools are closed after the start of the school day, teachers will also be dismissed."
In the case of students who are not picked up immediately after dismissal, this is also addressed in the CBA
Article Seven: School Schedules Section Seven
"At the elementary school level, teachers will escort their students to the designated dismissal door; any students not picked up will be escorted by the teacher to a place identified in the building procedures. At the middle and high school levels, teachers will clear the halls of students in their area of the building."