SAN ANTONIO-- A new state law has school districts taking a good look at their schedules and some will be adding more time to the school day to meet new requirements.

Texas students are now required to spend 75,600 minutes in class due to a new rule that measures a school year by minutes, not days.

“Depending on what grade level it is, we are looking to add anywhere from 5 to 15 minutes of time to make up the time we need to comply with the law,” said Pascual Gonzalez, with the Northside Independent School District.

In North Texas, the added time helps avoid bad weather make-up days down the road. But In San Antonio, districts like Northside ISD are left trying to figure out where to fit in more class time. The possible solutions will mean changes for everyone.

“We can add minutes to the day, we can eliminate early release days. This is when teachers get their professional development. We can ask for a waiver of days. We can add days to the calendar, or it can be a combination of all of them,” said Gonzalez.

Leaders with the NISD says it's calendars are usually adopted two years in advance, so the district will have to modify the already-adopted 2016-2017 calendar. District leaders say The Texas Eduation Agency still needs to interpret the law and write up operating guidelines.

“We have 105,000 students in Northside, 117 schools and about 7,000 teachers so this has wide impact. We just don't know how much of an impact. we just don't know how much that will be,” said Gonzalez.

Time Warner Cable News reached out to some of the other districts across the city. Northeast ISD leaders say the district already complies with the new law, so it won't be making any changes to its schedule. The SAISD says its calendar meets requirements for now, but adjustments could be made in the future