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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The email adding April 15 was intentionally vague because they’re counting on this bill passing. They won’t officially say anything until the outcome is clear [/quote]

There was nothing vague about the email. it clearly said school ends June 26[/quote]
It said they recently announced last day would be June 25. But they’re applying waiver to avoid going to the last week of June. Nothing about the school will definitely end on June 26. [/quote]

This. My understanding is that the Senate will not take up the legislation changing the 180 requirement to and/or.
So that option is dead. The new plan is showing a good faith effort to add some instructional days (April 15) and asking MDSE to waive the rest. The intel I heard was pretty confident that would happen and the last day would be June 18. The note was cryptic in that it said “watch for another update before spring break” which is when they are hoping to finalize this plan B.[/quote]

This is correct. MCEA already informed it's members that if the state legislature bill is not passed, MSDE will not make school go into the  the week of 6/21. State BOE will honor a waiver if there is school  on 6/17 and 6/18, plus one additional day (which I'm assuming is April 15). More info coming before spring break....[/quote]

Is the mention of 6/17 from you or from MCEA?  That doesn't make any sense since 6/17 was always a school day, so it should have nothing to do with getting a waiver or not.[/quote]

This is from MCEA...I agree that it doesn't make a ton of sense, but that is what the note said.[/quote]

They scheduled 181 days of school in the calendar so maybe 6/17 counts as the first makeup day? Then they are adding the other two days. Then maybe state says they will waive 2. [/quote]

MCPS is stupid to only schedule 181 days.  Where I grew up in New York State we had 184 days scheduled (4 snow days) and if they weren't used, we'd end earlier in June.   Massachusetts schedules 185 days.

They try to be cheap at the beginning by only scheduling 181 with 1 snow day, and look at the chaos we have this year (and had last year).[/quote]

Last year they scheduled 182 days. This year would have been the same, but they lost one for the transition day.[/quote]

They didn't "lose" a day to the transition day.  They added a transition day in and ergo there were only 181 days.  The transition day wasn't some unplanned event.[/quote]

An event that makes no sense when previously there was a half day the week of preservice that served the same purpose! Why they moved it to a school day and made it full day is beyond me. I think Kindergarten didn't use the preservice orientation day previously, so the change should have been just to include them in that day instead. A full day is too much for a non instructional day! [/quote]

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