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District 202 Sets Schedule for Next Three Years
The calendar is still tentative, but parents should be able to use it to make long-term family and vacation plans.
Parents hoping to plan future vacations or family gatherings now have their children’s school calendars handy for the next three years.
The school board on Monday approved annual calendars through the 2014-15 school year, the first time the board has set the schedule for three school years in advance.
The three calendars – for 2012-13, 2013-14 and 2014-15 – are very similar to one another. Like this school year, classes will begin in mid-August, end before Memorial Day, and final exams for the first semester will take place before winter break.
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This is the first year the district . Teachers and high school students have commented that they were glad to take final exams in December rather than in mid-January, after a two-week break.
The start of school was pushed to late August several years ago, during the district's period of explosive growth, because of school construction time tables required as many summer building days as possible. For that reason, it was difficult to schedule more than one calendar year in advance, district spokesman Tom Hernandez said.
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The calendar is still tentative. The school district must abide by any changes set by the state, and cancellations due to snow or other extreme weather could push the end of school past Memorial Day.
According to the new calendars, parent-teacher conferences will be held after report cards are handed out in the fall and spring; students will have the Wednesday before Thanksgiving off and will be off for two weeks for winter break.
Students will be off the day after Easter in the 2012-13 and the 2014-15 school years, but not for the 2013-14 school year because Easter falls in late April in 2014.
There will also be no school for students on Election Day in November 2012 and 2014.
Board members hope to tentatively add graduation dates to the calendars to allow parents to plan for out-of-town guests, but noted that dates could be subject to change if the district has any snow days.
District principals, administration and the teachers’ union offered its input into the new calendars.
