26-29 SY calendar feedback

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:#1 Move spring break back to April.
#2 Reduce PD calendar dates from 12 to 10
(including the 4 0.5 days).
#3 Make President's Day a 6-day weekend (Thursday-Tuesday) if a full Monday-Friday week off can't be done.
#4 Use 1 PD day on election day.

For that 3rd year only (28-29) the school year starts on August 14 for teachers and 21 for students a full week before 23-24 which was similar and that school year still ended before Juneteenth. The start should be moved back to August 21 for teachers and 28 for students like it was in 2023-24.

The half days are days with no students, they are half days for the teachers and will not impact students. They will not make school on those days regardless.

I said for PD to be reduced from 12 to 10 calendar dates INCLUDING 4 0.5 PD days so there would be 8.0 PD on 10 days instead of 10.0 on 12 days.
I did NOT say anything about student half days.

The other 0.5 of those days is a record keeping day, so they would have to become a half day for students. But DCPS surveyed parents and found parents would rather a full day off.

But also, teachers have 1 full and I think two 0.5 wellness days coming in the new contract. They said they won’t extend the year which doesn’t make sense but I’m guessing what they mean is extend from what it is now because they will reduce PD days into time off.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:#1 Move spring break back to April.
#2 Reduce PD calendar dates from 12 to 10
(including the 4 0.5 days).
#3 Make President's Day a 6-day weekend (Thursday-Tuesday) if a full Monday-Friday week off can't be done.
#4 Use 1 PD day on election day.

For that 3rd year only (28-29) the school year starts on August 14 for teachers and 21 for students a full week before 23-24 which was similar and that school year still ended before Juneteenth. The start should be moved back to August 21 for teachers and 28 for students like it was in 2023-24.

The half days are days with no students, they are half days for the teachers and will not impact students. They will not make school on those days regardless.

I said for PD to be reduced from 12 to 10 calendar dates INCLUDING 4 0.5 PD days so there would be 8.0 PD on 10 days instead of 10.0 on 12 days.
I did NOT say anything about student half days.

The other 0.5 of those days is a record keeping day, so they would have to become a half day for students. But DCPS surveyed parents and found parents would rather a full day off.

But also, teachers have 1 full and I think two 0.5 wellness days coming in the new contract. They said they won’t extend the year which doesn’t make sense but I’m guessing what they mean is extend from what it is now because they will reduce PD days into time off.

They would have to remove 2 of the full PDs so those 0.5 records/0.5 PD would remain. If 5 PDs proceed the start of the year for students and there are 4 days that are 0.5 PD/0.5 records there would only be ONE FULL PD between the 1st and last student days.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Some of the school calendar is driven by the WTU contract (number of PD days, etc.)

Yes and some charters reduce these and let out early