[kingu]

Quite a number of LAUSD schools are on a year round schedule, so adding days isn't a probability. After the Northridge earthquake, this issue came up, and the state just decided to accept an emergency waiver. But during the rounds of student protests over Proposition 187 (which I'm firmly convinced these students helped pass), the state refused to pay schools for days where students didn't attend for at least a 'minimum day'.

South El Monte got hit hard by that one, and so did Pasadena.

[Mears]

I'll be darned---I didn't know LA had year round schools.

In Massachusetts it is 185 days so they can tack on snow days at the end of June.