LOUISVILLE, Ky.-- For the second time in two weeks, the Jefferson County School District announces classes cancelled for teacher absences. In a tweet on Wednesday morning, JCPS announced: "Due to significant teacher absences and the inability to safely cover a large number of classes with substitute teachers in many of our schools, all @JCPSKY schools will be closed today, March 6, 2019."

The district says snow day sites will still be open, at the YMCA. This comes after last week's "sick out" that closed JCPS schools, and also schools in Fayette, Madison, and Marion counties. Teachers have been striking, calling out sick, encouraged by advocate groups like KY 120 United. Last Thursday, teachers called out and took to the capitol's annex building to protest a hearing for one bill that would restructure the state's teacher pension board. In the end, the bill moved forward anyway, despite the crowds that gathered to fight it.

KY 120 United took to Twitter on Wednesday morning, and claimed they were not the ones to call for the absences this time. They said in the tweet, "KY 120 United did not ask for JCPS to take action. Other districts are also cancelled due to weather and illness. However, we hope to see many red shirts in Frankfort today."

Meanwhile, the Jefferson County Teachers Association (JCTA) has also released a statement on Facebook, that's been met with much backlash. The association also denied responsibility for the Wednesday strike, and said: "The Association did not recommend this action by educators and is concerned that continued disruptions of this nature not only unduly disrupt families and the learning process for students, but consequently undermine community support for educators and public education."

Because of that "sick out," JCPS added a make up day of school to the year's calendar; the last day of classes was announced to be May 31, after the first strike. 

Kentucky's Teacher of the Year Jessica Dueñas tells Spectrum News One that, in part, "teachers in JCPS have called for a sickout because we need to make our legislators aware that we are not going to allow public schools to be attacked without a fight."