To:

Members, Board of Education

From:

Maurice O. Green, Superintendent
Nora Carr, Chief of Staff
Lekan Oguntoyinbo, District Relations Officer

Date:

May 8, 2009

RE:

Proposed Revisions to Extended-Year and Year-Round Calendars

The following revisions for the 2009-10 extended-year and year-round calendars are being submitted for your review and approval. The goal is to bring these two calendars into alignment with the traditional academic calendar that was approved by the board on April 7, 2009.

The requested changes for the extended-year calendar are as follows:

• Move the January 4 optional teacher workday to February 19. This would increase the number of instructional days in this quarter from 53 days to 54.
• Move the mandated teacher workday from February 19 to February 18.
• Move the early release day on February 18 to February 17.
• Make June 24 an optional teacher workday.

The first and last days of school, August 5 and June 18, respectively, would remain the same for the extended-year schools.
The principals at Hampton Leadership Academy and Oak Hill Elementary also requested some changes to their year-round calendar.

The requested changes for the year-round calendar are as follows:

• There will be no school on January 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 11. On the previous calendar, all of those days, with the exception of January 4, were designated as school days or workdays. This change would reduce the grading period for the third quarter from 50 days to 45 days. Instead, there will be instructional days on April 6, 7, 8 and 9 in the fourth quarter.  As a result of this adjustment, each quarter of the school year will have 45 instructional days, bringing the total number of instructional days to 180.
• Designate January 12, February 19, April 5, May 28 and June 11 optional teacher workdays.  June 10 would be a protected teacher workday.
• Move the February 18 early release date to February 17 to better align with the district’s traditional calendar.

The revisions will not require changes to the calendar waiver requests that were approved by the board last month because the first and last days of school of the extended-year calendar will not be affected. No waiver request was filed for the year-round calendar because the state does not require one.

RECOMMENDATION: The administration recommends that the board approve these revisions to the 2009-10 extended-year and year-round calendars as part of the consent agenda.

Attachment #1 - Revised 2009-10 extended-year calendar
Attachment #2 - Revised 2009-10 year-round calendar