Proposed 2015-16 Calendar Presented to Framingham School Committee

A committee comprised of school administrators, staff, and parents presented a proposed 2015-16 school calendar to the Framingham School Committee Tuesday night.

Overall, the number of early release days for professional development has been reduced for the proposed calendar for next year, which should benefit working parents.

The calendar still has six early release Thursdays for parent conferences, however they are spread out over four months instead of concentrated over two months (October and April) in 2014-15.

• The proposed first day of school is targeted at Wednesday, Aug. 26 for students in grades 1-12.
  
• Freshman at the high school would start on Tuesday, Aug. 25.
  
• Kindergarteners would start on Aug. 27 and preschoolers on Aug. 31.

Labor day is late in 2015 and is not until Monday, Sept. 7.

The proposed 185th day of school is scheduled on June 22. If there are no snow days, students would get out of school on the 180th day.

The calendar is considered in draft form, until a formal vote by the Framingham School Committee.

A copy of the draft calendar is attached to this report. Parents with issues may comment below or contact Chief Education Officer Sonia Diaz at sdiaz@framingham.k12.ma.us or email the Framingham School Committee directly.

Diaz has overseen the committee working on the draft. In September 2014, she presented a different draft to the Town-wide PTO (TWPTO). At that time there was some discussion of possible Friday early release days, but the draft presented to the Framingham School Committee has the early release days remaining on Thursdays.

Just like this year’s calendar, there are two evening parent-teacher conference dates factor into the calendar.

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In the current calendar, there are 3 days of early release due to professional development system-wide from the elementary level, through middle to the high school. In the 2015-16 proposed calendar, there is just one in October.

In the current calendar, there are 3 early release days elementary and middle school for professional development. In the proposed calendar, there are two for the next school year.

The current school calendar has four no school days for professional development, and the 2015-16 calendar proposes the same. They are: Aug. 25, Nov. 3 (election day), Jan. 15, and March 3.

The class of 2016 - of the calendar stays as is - would graduated on Sunday, June 5.

The proposed holidays for the 2015-16 calendar are:

• Sept. 7 - Labor Day
• Sept. 14 & 15 - Rosh Hashanah
• Sept. 23 - Yom Kippur
• Nov. 11 - Veterans Day
• Nov. 26 & 27 - Thanksgiving & Friday
• Dec 24-31 - Christmas Eve, Christmas & Holiday Vacation
• Jan. 1 - New Year’s Day
• Jan. 18 - Martin Luther King Jr. Day
• Feb. 15 -19 - Vacation
• March 25 - Good Friday
• April 18-22 - Vacation
• May 30 - Memorial Day