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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The tough nut to crack for DCPS is that they have to pencil in 180 days. And that's really hard to do with school closing every year for a General Election or Primary Day + Emancipation Day + 10 PD days for teachers. Pretty impossible to get these kids out before June 15 with those constraints.

There's also the fact that DCPS has a large underserved population who benefit from short summers and longer school years to minimize learning losses and to keep these kids off the street. DCPS has to balance their needs.

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I’m the PP who suggested mid-August start and dismissal by June 15. The one consistent thing about DCPS calendars over our 15 years in the system has been nine weeks of summer. School used to follow the two-weeks-before Labor Day start and was always out by mid-June. The shift to late June came with the one-week-before-Labor Day start initiated by Ferebee (although a few calendars in earlier years had this, as well, seemingly tied to the date of Labor Day). The widespread distaste for late-June dismissal seems to have led them to get rid of Feb break in the current calendars. Returning to two weeks before Labor Day would allow them to reintroduce Feb break and still have kids out in June. Pretty simple![/quote]

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