While Metcalfe will remain on a standard 10-month calendar, the first day of school for Rawlings Elementary will be July 16.
The goal is to reduce the “summer slide” where students' minds aren’t stimulated and subject matter needs to be re-taught after vacation.
The mayor’s vision for year-round schools came a little more into focus on Tuesday during school district budget hearings in City Council.
The Florida Department of Education has approved the district’s request to keep Metcalfe Elementary School on a traditional 10-month calendar while moving forward with a year-round schedule at .
City Councilmembers questioned Superintendent Tony Watlington and others about ongoing facilities issues, teacher vacancies, and more as they begin to shape the city’s budget for public education.
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Opposition among parents and teachers is brewing over the introduction of a pilot program that would bring year-round classes to two Alachua County schools.
The Richmond School Board voted Monday night to approve an extended school year for a fourth elementary school: Oak Grove-Bellemeade Elementary.
The school in Colorado where a suspect lunged at a child on the schoolyard in what police believe is an attempted kidnapping has an interim principal until a new principal can be named for the .
The City Council will not move forward with longtime board member Joyce Wilkerson’s nomination by Mayor Cherelle Parker.
One might ask why either extending daylight saving time to year-round — or eliminating it altogether — hasn’t already been done.
North Yarmouth and Cumberland residents will soon decide whether or not to put 53-million dollars into a school project.