ST. PAUL - With frigid weather in the forecast, the Minneapolis and Anoka-Hennepin public school districts will cancel classes Wednesday. St. Paul schools, however, decided to remain open.
Minneapolis, the state’s third-largest district, and Anoka-Hennepin, the largest district, announced the closings late Tuesday afternoon.
The Hastings, Forest Lake, Centennial, Osseo and Brooklyn Center districts also said they would cancel classes Wednesday.
Still, the forecast for subzero temperatures and dangerous windchills was not expected to be enough to force widespread school closings.
St. Paul officials said schools in the state’s second-largest district would be open Wednesday, but parents who choose to keep students home would have absences excused.
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However, the Minnesota Department of Education said it won’t be canceling classes statewide Wednesday because of the cold.
Other districts have similar temperature thresholds as St. Paul - Minneapolis has a 35-below-zero limit - but administrators said they planned to make decisions about whether to hold classes as late as 6:30 a.m. on a school day.
The Twin Cities are experiencing the coldest temperatures of the season this week.
