A North Carolina House Select Committee is recommending the General Assembly change a state law forcing districts to start school the Monday closest to Aug. 26 and end no later than the Friday closest to June 11.
It’s been a hot topic in the Charlotte region.
Several school boards in our area have led the wave of districts defying the state law and starting the school year weeks before it's allowed.
The House Select Committee on Education System for North Carolina’s Future concluded, “The Committee finds that the current requirement that schools begin no earlier than the Monday closest to Aug 26 and adjourn no later than the Friday closest to June 11 creates a school calendar that is not best suited to the needs of students and educators. To better meet those needs, the Committee finds that local boards of education should be given greater calendar flexibility to better meet those needs, the Committee finds that local boards of education should be given greater calendar flexibility.”
The finding was just one of six from the committee.
"Calendar flexibility has long been talked about and is sorely overdue for a number of reasons," Representative David Willis, a committee member from Union County, said.
The main reasons are to align schools' calendars with local community colleges and allow for state testing to happen prior to the holiday break.
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