Canada
For school closings and delays in Canada, tune in to your local radio station for the latest closings and delays.
In Ontario, Canada, you can visit ontarioweather.com (See Related Link) to find the stations to tune in for closings in your area.
Postings of school closings for Ireland schools can be found on www,schooldays.ie if your school is registered on the site. You can also listen to the local radio stations in your area.
To be sure your school is signed up with schooldays, you can check the lists of Primary Schools and Secondary Schools (See Related Links).
Parents who are registered on the School Days' Parent Network will receive emails when notices are posted by their child's school. (See Related Link)
Closures and delays will also be announced on the following radio stations for the given areas:
Schools in south east Leinster - East Coast FM
Dublin area - 98 FM.com
Carlow / Kilkenny - KCLR 96FM
Donegal / Ulster - Highland Radio
Waterford - WLRFM Radio
Dundalk - LMFM
Athlone/Roscommon - Shannonside
Laois/Wesmeath/Offaly - Midlands103
Kildare - KFM Radio
Kerry - Radio Kerry
Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland school closings are posted on the BBC web site.
Use the Related Link to go directly to the Northern Ireland school closings page.
United Kingdom
For latest emergency school closings in the United Kingdom, tune in to the BBC or visit the Directgov web site, where you can get the latest closings for your area by typing in your post code.
United States
The best source of information for school closings in the United States is usually the local T.V. and radio stations. Radio stations almost always announce the list of closings they receive every few minutes. Television stations usually run an ongoing list of closings across the bottom of the screen or show the list every few minutes. Closings might also be posted on their websites and possibly on the school district's or individual school's websites.
For a list of closings, tune in to local radio and television stations.
If you want to know how many schools in your area are closed, you could count them as they are shown on the school closings on the television. If you want a wider area, like for an entire state or country, it might not be possible to get all the information needed to know how many are closed, but you could try. It would be a major task, though.
If you want to know how many elementary schools in your area are closed, you could count them as they are shown on the school closings on the television. If you want a wider area, like for an entire state or country, it might not be possible to get all the information needed to know how many are closed, but you could try. It would be a major task, though.
If closings are not being announced on radio or television, you should call the school.
all i know of is in new york and mexico. also i heard that all schools are closed in texas. and some schools in England have closed.
It is safe to assume that all schools in New Orleans were closed because of Hurricane Sandy, but to find out how many days they were closed or if schools in other areas were closed, you should check newspapers or call the school district of the area you are interested in.
For latest emergency school closings in the United Kingdom, tune in to the BBC or visit the Directgov web site, where you can get the latest closings for your area by typing in your post code.
Not all schools are closed for Columbus Day, The decision is made by the local school boards.
Schools in the United States are usually closed part or all of June, all of July, and part of August. Most schools are closed between Christmas and the day after New Years Day, and for a week in either March or early April. There are some schools that have school year round, so the times they are closed vary from this.
In the UK all schools are closed on a Bank Holiday.
To find out how many schools closed due to snow in 2009, start with your local 2009 newspapers, which you can read at the library and might be able to read online. Once you know how many schools in your area closed, you can widen the area until you have researched all the school districts in the UK.
It is impossible to say how many schools would be closed. It would depend on how large of an area was effected by the blizzard, but one can assume that all schools in the path of the blizzard would be closed.