It looks like families at Wake County's traditional-calendar schools won't have to worry about 2014 spring break being cut short to use as weather makeup days.
Currently, the school district's 2013-14 traditional-calendar schedule has March 31-April 2, the first three days of spring break, as possible makeup days. But Wake school administrators want to revise the schedule to move the three makeup days to the end of the school year in June.
Deputy Superintendent Cathy Moore told the school board's student achievement committee last week that the district plans to take advantage of changes in the state's calendar law approved last year by the General Assembly.
The new law says that traditional-calendar schools can start on the Monday closest to Aug. 26 and end the Friday closest to June 11. Previously, the law said the first day had to be Aug. 25 and the last day June 10.
Under the old schedule, critics argued that they were forced to use spring break as makeup days.
The change means traditional-calendar schools can end as late as June 13, 2014.
Moore said she'll present to the school board on Jan. 22 a revised 2013-14 schedule that shifts the spring break makeup days to past June 10. She said the change is a "slam dunk."
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Correction
Thu, 01/17/2013 - 19:46 — louiselee44"Previously, the law said the first day had to be Aug. 25 and the last day June 10."
Actually, the original wording of the law did not mandate that all schools had to start on Aug. 25 and end on June 10. Those dates were parameters within which local school districts could set their own start and end dates.
The recent changes allow for more flexibility.
I agree that this will be a "slam dunk". When the calendar was first proposed, the changes to the law had not gone through.
Read more here: http://blogs.newsobserver.com/wakeed/wake-county-school-system-to-eliminate-2014-spring-break-weather-makeup-days#storylink=cpy