6111

Instruction

School Calendar

The Superintendent of Schools shall recommend school calendars meeting all statutory requirements to the Board of Education for its review and modified as it believes appropriate, for its approval.

The calendars recommended to the Board may include the operation of schools on state holidays providing a suitable nonsectarian educational program is held to observe the holiday, except for those holidays that occur in December and January.

The school calendar shall show school days in each school month, the number of school days in each month, legal and local holidays, staff development days, early closing days, vacation periods, and other pertinent dates, including graduation for students in grade twelve.

Note: A Board of Education for a school that has been designated as a low achieving school pursuant to subdivision (1) of subsection (c) of C.G.S. 10-223e may increase the number of actual school sessions during each year, and may increase the number of hours of actual school work per session in order to improve student performance and remove the school from the list of schools designated as a low achieving school maintained by the State Board of Education.

The Board, in establishing a graduation date, may establish for any school year a firm graduation date which is no earlier than the one-hundred eightieth day in the adopted school calendar. 

To benefit children, families, and school staff in their planning, multiple year school calendars are preferable to single year school calendars.

The Board of Education may use the RESC developed and approved uniform regional school calendar for the school year commencing July 1, 2017 and each school year thereafter.

Beginning with the 2019-2020 school year, the Board of Education may develop and adopt its own school calendar to begin school on any day before or after Labor Day.

(cf. 6146 - Graduation Requirements)

Legal Reference:  Connecticut General Statutes

1-4 Days designated as legal holidays.

10-15 Towns to maintain schools.

10-29a Certain days to be proclaimed by governor.  Distribution and number of proclamations.

10-261 Definitions.

10-16l Establishment of graduation date.

10-66q Development and adoption of uniform regional school calendar. Report.

PA 22-47 An Act Concerning Children's Mental Health

PA 22-128 An Act Establishing Juneteenth Independence Day as a Legal Holiday

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