At Monday Night's Board of Education, a return to the "traditional" calendar for the 2013-2014 school year was approved by the BOE.
The proposed Traditional Calendar developed by the Calendar Committee contains
the following features:
- 180 student-contact days;
- 180 student-contact days;
- 189 teacher-contract days with the final day (Day 190) being comprised of four (2 hrs.
each/2 per semester) conference nights during the year as scheduled by each local school;
- Takes into account state-designated testing windows and dates;
- Concludes
the first semester before the Winter Break in December - which prevents students
from returning from the break with final exams and End of Course Tests
(EOCT)
- August 12th is first day of school.
- Week of Thanksgiving is off
- Two weeks between Christmas and New Years is off.
- Schedules Spring Break April 7-11, 2014.
- May 23rd is last day of school.
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