School to Begin Before Labor Day Weekend in 2015

A change in the usual timing of the opening of school for the 2015-16 school year will cut some family summer vacations short in August.

At the February 4, 2015 meeting, the Scarsdale Board of Education the board passed on the new school calendar which shows ninth grade orientation on Monday August 31 and Tuesday September 1 with the first day of school on Wednesday September 2. The hitch is that Labor Day is the following weekend – so there is a half-day planned for Friday September 4 and a full day off on September 7. Customarily, school starts immediately after Labor Day weekend – but since it's late this year, school needs to begin earlier so that it's open for the required number of weeks.

There's another interesting change in the calendar.

While Scarsdale Schools customarily have a week off in February during the week of Washington's Birthday and another in March or April for Easter and Passover, in the spring of 2016, the calendar includes an extra four-day weekend. Easter falls on Sunday March 27 and schools will be closed from Friday March 26 through Monday March 29 for a mini break. Then in April, Passover starts on April 23 and there is a full week of vacation from Monday April 25 – Friday April 29.

So even though families will need to cut short their summer vacations, they can enjoy three breaks in the spring.

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