Caldwell-West Caldwell Schools to close Friday before Memorial Day weekend due to unused snow days.
Caldwell-West Caldwell Schools announced a change to the school calendar Friday. Schools will be closed on Friday, May 24, creating a four-day Memorial weekend. The Board of Education passed a resolution in December stating if no snow/emergency days were used by April 19, then May 24 would be designated a school holiday. The resolution was passed after the calendar was shuffled around to accommodate a number of unexpected days off following Superstorm Sandy. "I wish all families a safe and relaxing Memorial Day Weekend," Superintendent James Heinegg said in a letter posted on the district's website.
Storm forces Caldwell-West Caldwell school district to revisit vacation schedule.
Caldwell-West Caldwell Schools will add two days to the 2012-2013 calendar thanks to Superstorm Sandy. The district's board of education will vote next week on the superintendent's recommendation to open schools on Monday, Jan. 21 and Tuesday, Feb. 19. January 21, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, would be an early dismissal day. February 19, the day after President's Day, was originally scheduled as a vacation day as part of a shortened winter break. The district had built-in four snow days for the school year. But an unprecedented Oct. 29 storm left the school's withpower power, and closed, for six days. The storm also canceled the annual teachers' convention in Atlantic City, and the district chose to open on two days in November that …
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Barbara
1:17 pm on Wednesday, December 5, 2012
Let's hope we don't use the 2 snow days we would have left after they vote in the Jan and Feb. days as school days. However, I see that if we don't use the remaining snow days, school will be closed the Friday before Memorial Day weekend. Does anyone know what happens if we don't use the last snow day? Do the kids get an additional day off somewhere down the road? more ›