Beshear signs ten emergency remote instruction days due to Covid-19

GLASGOW, Ky. – Many Kentucky students are finally in their classrooms after more than a week off due to staffing shortages and Covid-19.

Governor Andy Beshear signed an emergency law to tackle Covid in the classroom – adding 10 remote instruction days per school across all of Kentucky.

How is this different from non-traditional instruction, or NTI, days? Each school district can now use their ten NTI days for snow days and other non-covid virtual learning needs.

The ten remote instruction days are for covid specifically. Also, unlike the NTI days, each individual school school (opposed to district) can now use up to ten days of remote learning for either the entire school, or individual classrooms, grades, or group levels for the rest of this 2021-2022 school year. 

Director of instruction and tech for Barren County Schools Scott Harper said, “The new days give us some flexibility that we didn’t have under the ten original days that were NTI… We would have to do some planning and some great communication for everyone to understand exactly who was going to school and who wasn’t if we take advantage of the remote learning days.”

Harper said they’re thankful to have six non-traditional instruction days left on top of these ten new remote learning days to use.