Atlantic School Board to hold public hearing on 2023-24 School Calendar March 8th

(Atlantic) The Atlantic School Board will hold a public hearing on the 2023-24 School Master Calendar on March 8^th.

Superintendent Steve Barber said they created a calendar committee and they were given the framework of a minimum of 1,080 hours, can’t start before August 23^rd, and they were given a mirror image of what they did for the year prior. Then, they talked as a committee about different options. He said each committee member went to their buildings and parents spoke to parents and then they met again and put together their draft proposal. Barber explained some of the differences from last year to this year…

Barber said probably the biggest conversation was on spring break.

The dates for Spring Break would be Thursday, March 28 through Wednesday, April 3. Andy Mitchell said there were comments about how a lot of people don’t take vacations over spring break anyway, they’re taking them anytime throughout the year.

Barber said another change is moving the dismissal time on November 22^nd from 1:00 to 1:30 to keep it consistent with the early outs on Wednesdays.

The last day of school would fall on May 22^nd.

The public hearing on the calendar begins at 5:45 p.m. on March 8^th.