Mountain Brook studied how to implement e-days for about six months, and the need to make up two school days because of January’s snowfall presented an opportunity. School officials consulted schools which have had e-days in Ohio, New Jersey and Kentucky.

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During a board meeting, Zachary Barnes, the director of graduation success and dropout prevention for the school system, and Robert Coates, director of secondary education, spoke to the board about Bridgewater Academy, a fully accredited online school that allows students to have access course studies 24 hours a day.

As a credit recovery program, Bridgewater Academy makes earning course credits as simple as logging onto a website.

Barnes said that Bridgewater will not replace other programs the system uses for credit recovery, like Plato Learning.

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