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Howard Elementary may be G.I. trailblazer for continuous calendar
By Harold Reutter
harold.reutter@theindependent.com
Published: Thursday, February 10, 2011 8:05 AM CST
The Grand Island school board will be asked to approve the continuous calendar for Howard Elementary for the 2011-12 school year when it meets for its February board meeting Thursday evening.
Howard Elementary is the first Grand Island K-5 building to use the continuous calendar, with additional grade schools scheduled to use a continuous calendar starting with the 2012-13 school year.
Those schools are Starr, Jefferson and West Lawn Elementary schools.
If the calendar is approved, Howard Elementary students’ first day of school would be July 13, which would give them a shorter summer break than students in the other 17 Grand Island schools.
It is hoped that the shorter break will help Howard students retain more of the material they learned during the previous school year. While the summer break will be shorter, Howard Elementary students will have the same number of mandatory school days as students in Grand Island’s other 17 schools.
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