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August 2011 |
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New teacher orientation |
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Reading Program training for new teachers |
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Fall Sports begin |
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Opening activities for teachers. (To include the
equivalent of 2 teacher workdays) - Aug 17 Professional Development Day |
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Schools closed for teachers |
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NOTE: Several schools
have a late opening date for school year 2011-2012
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Schools open grades 1-5 and 6 and 9
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Schools open for students in grades 1 through 12. |
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Conferences for Half-day Pre-K & ECI students. August
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Staggered entrance for Kindergarten and Full-day
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First day of school for ECI students |
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Staggered entrance for Half-day Prekindergarten |
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First day for all Kindergarten and Full-day Prekindergarten |
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First day for Half-day Prekindergarten |
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Labor Day – All Schools and
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Attacking the Gap! Professional
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Two-hour early dismissal for all students.
Schools closed for p.m. Pre-kindergarten and E.C.I. |
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Rosh Hashanah – All Schools and
Central Offices closed - no extracurricular activities to
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Interims to be sent home |
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High School Assessment (HSA) |
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PSAT |
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Attacking the Gap! Professional
Development -
Two-hour early dismissal for all students.
Schools closed for p.m. Pre-kindergarten and E.C.I. |
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Schools closed for
students. MSEA Convention.
Professional Development Day |
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End of first marking period (46 days).
Two-hour early dismissal for all students.
Schools closed for p.m. Pre-kindergarten and E.C.I. |
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Beginning of second marking period |
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Attacking the Gap! Professional
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Two-hour early dismissal for all students.
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Report card
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Winter Sports Begin |
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American Education Week |
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Schools closed for
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Parent/Teacher conferences for elementary
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Christmas/Winter Break. All
schools closed December 23 through January 2
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school-based Unit IV employees. School and Central Offices closed December 23, 26,
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*Note: January 23 and 24 may
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See "Calendar Notes"
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All Schools and Central Offices closed |
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Schools open for teachers and students |
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High School Assessment
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Attacking the Gap! Professional
Development -
Two-hour early dismissal for all students.
Schools closed for p.m. Pre-kindergarten and E.C.I. |
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Semester Examinations for Centers of Applied
Technology |
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Martin Luther King, Jr. Birthday
Commemoration
All Schools and Central Offices closed |
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High School Semester Examinations.
Two-hour early dismissal for all students, teacher workdays.
Schools closed for p.m. Pre-kindergarten and E.C.I. students |
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End of second marking period (47 days) |
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Schools closed for students.
Professional Development day/Workday for elementary and middle school.
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Report card distribution for all students |
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Application for Pre-kindergarten begins |
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Presidents’ Day - All Schools and Central Offices
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Spring sports begin |
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Interims to be sent home by this date |
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Maryland School Assessment Administration (MSA)
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End of third marking period. (47 days)
Two-hour early dismissal for all students. Schools closed for p.m.
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Easter/Spring Break. All schools
closed April 2-9
for students, teachers and school-based Unit-IV
employees. All schools and central offices closed April 5-9 |
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Primary Election Day - All Schools and
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MSA Science Test Administration - Grades 5
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Beginning of fourth marking period |
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Registration for Kindergarten begins |
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High School Assessment (HSA) - Senior
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Report card distribution for all students |
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Attacking the Gap! Professional
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Two-hour early dismissal for all students.
Schools closed for p.m. Pre-kindergarten and E.C.I. |
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Interims to be sent home by this date |
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High School Assessment (HSA) |
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Schools closed for prekindergarten, kindergarten, & ECI.
Spring Conferences for parents of those students |
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Memorial Day—All Schools and
Central Offices closed |
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Semester Examinations for Centers of Applied Technology |
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High School Examinations, textbook collection.
Two-hour early dismissal for all students. Schools closed for half-day Pre-kindergarten and E.C.I. |
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End of fourth marking period
(45 days). Last day for students. Two-hour early dismissal for all students.
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Last day for teachers |
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July
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Independence Day–Schools and Central Office closed |
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Summer School Begins |
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23 - 27 |
High School Assessment (HSA) Summer
Administration |
Calendar Notes:
Inclement Weather & Emergency School Closings
This calendar has four days built in at the end of the
school year for emergency closings,making the school year 185
student days and 195 teacher days. If any of the four emergency days
are not used, they shall be deducted from the June closing date.
Additional emergency closings shall be made up as determined by the
Board of Education.
Also, If emergency closings fall on January testing days or the
teacher workday,secondary schools will reschedule so that there are
four consecutive testing days followed by one teacher workday. This
scheduling affects all schools.
Semester Tests and Examinations
Extracurricular activities, practices, and club activities shall be scheduled at the end of the
regular school day for not more then 90 minutes on the evening prior to the day of
semester tests and examinations for high schools.
Religious Observances
Tests and examinations shall not be scheduled
on the day of a major religious observance. Tests and examinations
for evening high school will not be scheduled on the day a religious
observance begins. Jewish and Muslim dates are set according to the
Lunar calendar; they begin at sundown on the pre-ceding evening and
conclude at sundown on the dates noted. (Aug
31– Eid al-Fitr; Sept. 29 – Rosh
Hashanah; Oct 8 – Yom Kippur; Nov 7 –Eid al-Adha)
Appropriate Exercises
Schools shall devote a portion of the day to appropriate exercises on the
following dates:
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Oct.
12 - Columbus Day
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Nov.
11 - Veterans' Day
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Jan 15 -
Martin Luther King Jr's Birthday
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Feb. 12 -
Lincoln's Birthday
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Feb. 22 -
Washington's Birthday
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April
30 - Arbor Day
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May 30 - Memorial Day, and
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any other day of national significance
When schools are closed, appropriate exercises should be held on the preceding Friday.
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