{"id":15362,"date":"2020-01-05T20:04:19","date_gmt":"2020-01-06T01:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/?p=15362"},"modified":"2020-01-03T16:18:25","modified_gmt":"2020-01-03T21:18:25","slug":"acps-needs-your-input-on-a-pre-labor-day-start-in-august-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/?p=15362","title":{"rendered":"ACPS Needs Your Input on a Pre-Labor Day Start in August 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Virginia General Assembly recently passed legislation to allow school divisions to begin school before Labor Day. ACPS considered this as an option for the 2020-21 school year but the timeline to make this change was just too short.<\/p>\n

However, we want to explore this option again, with enough time to plan properly, for the 2021-22 school year. We need you to share your thoughts in a new survey \u2014 for the following school year, not this coming one \u2014 so that we can explore the option of an earlier start.<\/p>\n

If we want to consider starting the school year prior to Labor Day in August 2021, we need to make that decision in the next few months so that the staff and community can plan for the change at least a year before implementation.<\/p>\n

The pre-Labor day start is advantageous for student success because it reduces summer learning loss and provides the most classroom time before Advanced Placement (AP) exam testing. It also helps reduce the summer learning gap<\/a> for all students, but particularly younger students.<\/p>\n

Take the 2021-22 Academic Calendar Survey<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0and select ONE of THREE options:<\/p>\n

Option 1: Start Tuesday, September 7, 2021<\/strong>\u00a0–\u00a0Download the Option 1 Calendar (PDF)<\/a>
\n\u2022 School starts after Labor Day
\n\u2022 Two full weeks for Winter Break
\n\u2022 180 Student days; 195 Teacher days
\n\u2022 Last day of school for students: June 22, 2022
\n\u2022 This calendar reflects our current practice of starting classes on the day after Labor Day.<\/p>\n

Option 2: Start Thursday, August 26, 2021<\/strong>\u00a0–\u00a0Download the Option 2 Calendar (PDF)<\/a>
\n\u2022 Aligns with Loudoun County Public Schools
\n\u2022 School starts six days prior to Labor Day
\n\u2022 Four-day Labor Day weekend, with no school on Friday, September 3
\n\u2022 Two full weeks for Winter Break
\n\u2022 180 Student days; 195 Teacher days
\n\u2022 Last day of school for students: June 15, 2022
\n\u2022 This calendar provides additional classroom time before Advanced Placement (AP) exam testing and reduces summer learning loss.<\/p>\n

Option 3: Start Tuesday, August 24, 2021<\/strong>\u00a0–\u00a0Download the Option 3 Calendar (PDF)<\/a>
\n\u2022 Aligns with Fairfax County Public Schools
\n\u2022 School starts eight days prior to Labor Day
\n\u2022 Four-day Labor Day weekend, with no school on Friday, September 3
\n\u2022 Two full weeks for Winter Break
\n\u2022 180 Student days; 195 Teacher days
\n\u2022 Last day of school for students: June 10, 2022
\n\u2022 This calendar provides the most classroom time before Advanced Placement (AP) exam testing and reduces summer learning loss.<\/p>\n

The survey is also available in Spanish<\/a>, Amharic<\/a> and Arabic<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The survey will be available through Friday, January 24, 2020<\/b>.<\/p>\n

Once feedback has been received, the Academic Calendar Committee<\/a> and ACPS administrators will evaluate the responses to determine the general sentiment to support a particular option. A calendar recommendation will be made to the superintendent.<\/p>\n

The superintendent will present the recommended calendar to the School Board for approval at a meeting in February 2020. Once approved, the adopted calendars will be posted on the ACPS website<\/a> and announced in ACPS Express, ACPS Insider and on social media.<\/p>\n

Thank you in advance for participating in this calendar survey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Although it proved too complex to start school before Labor Day for the 2020-21 school year, we need to know if you are still keen on this idea for the following school year. Take our survey and let us know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":15367,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-acps"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-12 12:36:01","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15362"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15433,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15362\/revisions\/15433"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}