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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If anyone is interested, these are the results of the MCEA staff poll.  Not sure it will have any impact, though.  The BOE kind of does what it wants.

Looks like nobody wants to lose any spring break!

[i]The polling options and results are as follows:
 
Option A:
Add an additional professional day to the calendar on September 12th. This would cost approximately $7 million dollars. By eliminating an instructional day in September, an additional instructional day would need to be added later in the school year. If it were added in June, it would push the last day of school to Friday, June 16th, with the final professional day then falling on Monday, June 19th. 
 
Option B: 
Alternately, an additional professional day could be added on September 12 at a cost of $7 million, and the lost instructional day could be added in on Monday April 10 – the first day of spring break. 
 
Option C: 
Alternately, a professional day could be created on September 12 at no cost by ‘swapping’ it for one of the existing end of marking period grading days guaranteed in the MCEA contract. (This would require an all-member vote to modify the contract). This would not require the addition of an instructional day in April or June, as the former grading day would become an instructional day
 
Option D:
Alternately, a professional day could be created on September 12 at no cost by moving one of the pre-service professional days to September 12, reducing the pre-service days to four. Under this option, pre-service days would still begin on Monday August 22, but the first day of school would be moved up to Friday August 26. The final day of school would remain as Thursday June 15.
 
Option E: 
Alternately, a professional day could be created on September 12 at no cost by moving one of the pre-service professional days to September 12, reducing the pre-service days to four. Under this option – to avoid starting school on a Friday - pre-service days would be moved up to begin on Thursday, August 18 with the first day of school being moved up to Wednesday, August 24. The final student day of school would then be moved up to Wednesday, June 14. 
 
Of the 2,670 responses to the poll, the percentage of members who selected each option as their first choice follows:
Option A – 24.6%
Option B – 8.8%
Option C – 23.0%
Option D – 18.3%
Option E – 25.3%[/i][/quote]

Now that the Board has decided to reconsider are these still the only possible options available?
Has anyone been informed that Option A is worded incorrectly. The last planned day was Friday 6/16, adding 1 day would push the last day to Monday 6/19?
I assume there is no chance of them reversing course on granting the Muslim holy day as a day off.[/quote]

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