ATTENTION: SCHOOL CALENDAR CHANGE FOR UPCOMING YEAR!!!!!

At its April 1 meeting, the DeKalb County Board of Education voted to delay the implementation of the district’s balanced calendar until the 2014-15 school year. With it, the Board adopted a traditional calendar.
The proposed Traditional Calendar developed by the Calendar Committee contains the following features:

·        180 student-contact days;

·        189 teacher-contract days with the final day (Day 190) being comprised of four (two hours each/two per semester) conference nights during the year as scheduled by each local school;

·        Takes into account state-designated testing windows and dates;

·        Concludes the first semester before the Winter Break in December which prevents students from returning from the break with final exams and End of Course Tests;

·        And schedules Spring Break April 7-11, 2014.

The delay of implementation allows the district to explore additional calendar options and obtain further input from the community.

The traditional calendar can be viewed here . And is copied below.  Green and orange blocks = no school for children.  You will see the school starts a week later in August and some of the vacation weeks that were scheduled throughout the year are now gone.  These changes may require updates to your family vacation and childcare plans so please review the calendar.