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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Because that's a Tuesday expect many absences on Dec 22/23.
Next year's calendar has the perfect storm of challenges: Rosh Hashana, Yom Kippur, Diwali (new), Lunar New Year, Eid al-Fitr, Eid al-Adha all land on otherwise school days and unlike this year none coincide with a quarter end. Yom Kippur 2024 was on a Saturday, Lunar New Year and Eid al-Fitr 2025 double up with Grading days but there is no such luxury next year leading to 3 extra days off and Diwali makes that 4.
Without any other tweaks there is the battle of starting a mini week on undesirable dates on Monday the 22nd either in December or June.
They could move the new transition day to the week before school to build a day in and adjust the calendar to avoid the low attendance days in late December but there would not be any freebies for cancelations. If the PD day in October is moved from the 17th to the 20th doubling with Diwali that would help but that is not much cushion in most years especially in brutal winters.

What needs to happen is for Maryland to join other states like neighboring Virginia and tweak the school calendar law to allow flexibility while still having a similar sized school year.
A. Schools must schedule 180 days but up to four free cancelations can occur before any makeup days are needed.
B. Up to 4 professional development days count towards the 180 day requirement (if there are 3 or less more student days are required)
C. 180 Day Hours equivalent {Some states including Virginia, Georgia, Florida have this option. (For Virginia it's 990 hours)}[/quote]

It sure didn't take long for MCEA to cut school days after getting Zimnerman on the board. They could have at least waited until Zimmerman bothered to show up to a meeting.[/quote]

The transition day was Taylor's idea, not MCEA's.[/quote]

Read the OP. They want to cut 4 school days.[/quote] It would only be cutting 4 school days if there are 4 or more emergency closures. If there are 0-3 then there are more school days. There would still have to meet the 1080 hour requirement which is higher than many other states.[/quote]

That's not what the OP proposed. They suggested only requiring 176 instructional days.[/quote] Well things like bad weather happen. For the current school year if the calendar was the same except for Jan 2 & 3 there would be 180 days.... if there were 0 cancelations. For next year no school on Dec 22 & 23 would only leave 179 scheduled days so the new transition day would need to be previous week or the PD on October 17 would need to be moved to October 20 (Diwali) but then there would be 180 days..... before emergency closures.[/quote]

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