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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]While we are all waiting for a few more months until the official calendar, it isn't really too hard to get close to figuring out what the calendar will look like.

Per VA codes:

*The school year must be 180 days or a minimum of 990 hours
*The following holidays are observed:  Labor Day, Indigenous Peoples' Day, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day, New Year's Day, MLK Day, Presidents' Day and Memorial Day
*Thanksgiving vacation will be Wednesday through Friday
*Winter vacation will be 5-10 days, depending on when the legal holidays fall.  The school week before or after the holiday should be at least two days.
*Spring vacation is a full M-F week

Apparent FCPS preferences:

*Add the following holidays (usually as teacher workdays):  Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Diwali, Orthodox Good Friday, Eid al Fitr, Lunar New Year.  
*Provide teacher workdays at the end of each Quarter
*Election Day is a holiday
*Winter Break goes through January 2nd
*Spring Break is the first week of April

Calendar specifics for 2023-2024:

*With Christmas/New Years on a Monday, the regulations would favor a shorter 11-day Winter Break.  Saturday 12/23 - Tuesday 1/2
*Easter falls on Sunday, March 31st, 2024, so Spring Break the first week of April is a near certainty
*Diwali and Lunar New Year are on weekends and will not be observed

If you plug all of that into a calendar that starts on Monday, August 21st, 2023 and ends on Friday, June 14th, 2023, you end up with 184 days.  So, there are ~4 days to play with depending on how you structure the end of the quarters.

Potential options are to:

*Start or end the school year with partial weeks
*Add days to Winter Break (such as Thursday 12/21 and Friday 12/22)
*Provide an extended Spring Break (Eid is on Wednesday 4/10, so the Mon/Tue of that week)
*Provide random days off

So, what say you, cranky DCUM posters?  [/quote]

Except Rosh Hashana and Diwali fall on a weekend next year so they won’t be days off. [/quote]

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