Salisbury School District Considers Earlier Start Date
Salisbury Township School District considers starting school before Labor Day.
Salisbury Township School District officials will consider starting the school year before Labor Day next year, according to Superintendent Robert Gross. The school year would begin the last week of August, Gross said at the school board's Sept. 26 curriculum and technology committee meeting. To balance out the earlier start date, school would also let out a week earlier, he said. Gross said the new date would coordinate better with the Lehigh Career & Technical Institute schedule and allow for more instructional time for standardized tests. “If you look at the March, April, May testing calendar, the PSSA’s, Keystone Exams—everything—is moving earlier into the year,” Gross explained. Although students would gain only a few extra days, …
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Salisbury Resident
4:00 pm on Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Now, lets not get too happy about this change. Aside from the impact to families and school curriculum changes, I seriously doubt the school year will end any earlier than it has in past few years. The way snow days, school cancellations and days off are granted, students will be going to school through to the end of June. Why not just propose an all year school year? more ›