Find the official source
Use the district’s own website, calendar, board-approved document, or authorized alert channel.
Verification methodology
Check the source before showing a date.
SchoolDayWatch may publish less information, but everything presented as confirmed must be traceable to acceptable official evidence.
Record when it was checked
Keep the source link and the date it was reviewed so visitors can judge how current the information is.
Read only what the source states
Do not fill missing dates, infer a closure, or treat a tentative calendar as final.
Check the details
Confirm the school year, affected schools, date range, source authority, and any conflicting updates.
Resolve uncertainty
Hold back information that is ambiguous, provisional, graphical, conflicting, or incomplete until it can be confirmed.
Show confirmed information
Present a date or operating status as verified only when an acceptable official source supports it.
Non-negotiable rule
Weather is not a closure announcement.
Weather information may increase monitoring priority. It cannot independently confirm that a school is closed, delayed, remote, or dismissing early.