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In 2010 Spring Break was based on Passover - Mon, April 18-Thu, April 21
Spring break No school for students and teachers.
(Note: Passover begins April 19)[/quote]

Spring break is [b]not[/b] based on Passover. Spring break is always before Easter. The note regarding Passover is always there, even when spring break is not at all on passover. 
For example, in 2008 
[quote][b]Mar. 21 & 24[/b]  Friday &  Monday  Holidays—Easter (Note: Passover begins at sundown on [b]April 19[/b])   Offices & schools closed [/quote]
(see [url]http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/uploadedFiles/SchoolCalendar0708.pdf[/url] ).

For trivia, it is true that Passover is usually just before Easter, so it turns out that Passover is usually during Spring Break (see [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter#Relationship_to_date_of_Passover[/url].
[quote]In determining the date of the Gregorian and Julian Easter a lunisolar cycle is followed. In determining the date of the Jewish Passover a lunisolar calendar is also used, and because Easter always falls on a Sunday it usually falls up to a week after the first day of Passover (Nisan 15 in the Hebrew calendar). However, the differences in the rules between the Hebrew and Gregorian cycles results in Passover falling about a month after Easter in three years of the 19-year cycle. These occur in years 3, 11, and 14 of the Gregorian 19-year cycle (corresponding respectively to years 19, 8, and 11 of the Jewish 19-year cycle).[/quote]
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