06. School Calendar 2024-2025
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Submitted by jenny_hunter on Fri, 01/12/2024 - 2:06pm
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Dr. Brian Weaver will present the recommended calendar for the 2024-2025 school year as first-read information. Two calendar committee meetings were held with parent and staff representatives from each school. The recommended draft contains many similarities to the current school calendar. Due to North Carolina’s calendar law (see summary below) there is little flexibility for change. Our system did not meet the required threshold for a weather-related calendar waiver. Therefore, the committee based the start date and end date on current calendar legislation. The first student day will be Monday, August 26 and the last student day will be Friday, June 6.
The draft calendar is attached. Dr. Weaver will answer any questions you may have. Approval of the 2024-2025 school calendar will be requested at the next regular meeting on February 5.
Requirements and Guidance on School Calendar - S.L. 2020-3 (SB704) Updated June 30, 2020. School calendars must meet the following requirements:
- Start date no earlier than the Monday closest to August 26 and end date no later than the Friday closest to June 11 (unless a weather related calendar waiver has been approved, year-round school, charter school or cooperative innovative high school.) If waiver is approved the start date can be no earlier than the Monday closest to August 19.
- There are no educational purpose waivers for exemption of the opening and/or closing dates.
- All schools within the district must be closed all day for purposes of determining eligibility for a weather related waiver (delayed starts or early dismissals of two or more hours no longer apply).
- Covers at least nine calendar months.
- Must have a minimum of 185 days OR 1,025 hours of instruction.
- Must have at least nine (9) teacher workdays.
- Local Boards shall designate two (2) workdays on which teachers may take accumulated vacation leave. Local Boards may designate the remaining workdays as days teachers may take accumulated vacation leave.
- Have a minimum of ten (10) annual vacation leave days.
- Have the same or an equivalent number of legal holidays occurring within the school calendar as those designated by the State Personnel Commission for State employees.
- School shall not be held on Sunday.
- Veterans Day shall be a holiday for all public school personnel and for all students enrolled in the public schools.
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