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Calendar 'extended,' not 'year-round'
By Harold Reutter
harold.reutter@theindependent.com
Published: Sunday, April 18, 2010 8:01 PM CDT
First things first. The Grand Island Public Schools are not proposing that two to four elementary schools adopt a “year-round” calendar starting with the 2011-12 school year. The traditional elementary school calendar has kindergarten through fifth-grade students in class 170.5 days per year. What Grand Island officials are calling their “extended school calendar” would also put kindergartners through fifth-graders in class 170.5 days per year.
So, if students are in school the same number of days under either calendar, why make the change?
Deb Harder, elementary teaching and learning director, gave two reasons.
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