{"id":24747,"date":"2012-07-24T07:56:33","date_gmt":"2012-07-24T07:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newspaper.ctsi-logistics.com\/?p=24747"},"modified":"2012-07-24T07:56:33","modified_gmt":"2012-07-24T07:56:33","slug":"boe-approves-new-school-calendar-for-public-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/boe-approves-new-school-calendar-for-public-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"BOE approves new school calendar for public schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The State Board of Education has adopted a new school calendar for public schools that calls for 180 instructional days for elementary and secondary levels effective this school year 2012-2013.<\/div>\n<p>These instructional days will be taken in four quarters with 45 instructional days per quarter. For the first quarter, classes are scheduled from Sept. 4 to Nov. 9, while the second quarter will begin on Nov. 13 and end on Feb. 1, 2013.<\/p>\n<p>For the third quarter, the 45 instructional days are scheduled from Feb. 4 to April 16, while the fourth quarter will last from April 17 to June 20.<\/p>\n<p>All certified personnel of the Public School System, including all teaching employees, are slated to report for work starting Aug. 27 in time for their school-level professional development activities.<\/p>\n<p>According to Education Commissioner Rita A. Sablan, schoolteachers were consulted about the new calendar, which has 14 official holidays and breaks between instructional days.<\/p>\n<p>Classes will start Sept. 4 at all grade levels, a Tuesday, since the first Monday of the month falls on Labor Day, a holiday.<\/p>\n<p>The board also approved a new school calendar for the Head Start program, which also has 180 instructional days in four quarters that starts on Aug. 29; the last day of instruction is on June 11, 2013.<\/p>\n<p>The board approved 14 holidays: Labor Day (Sept. 3); Commonwealth Cultural Day (Oct. 8); Citizenship Day (Nov. 5); Election Day (Nov. 6); Veterans Day (Nov. 11); Thanksgiving (Nov. 22); Constitution Day (Dec. 7); Christmas Day (Dec. 25); New Year&#8217;s Day (Jan. 1); Martin Luther King Jr. Day (Jan. 21); President&#8217;s Day (Feb. 18); Commonwealth Covenant Day (March 25); Good Friday (March 29); and Memorial Day (May 27).<\/p>\n<p>Ten professional development days were also incorporated into the new calendar.<\/p>\n<p>The board also approved a new school calendar for the Early Intervention Program, which has also 180 instructional days from Aug. 29 through June 11, 2013.<\/p>\n<p>By Moneth Deposa<br \/>\nReporter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The State Board of Education has adopted a new school calendar for public schools that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[39,599,600,601],"class_list":["post-24747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-boe","tag-constitution-day-dec","tag-day-jan","tag-thanksgiving-nov"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}