MoCo School Board Revives 10-Day Spring Break for 2019-2020 School Year

The Montgomery County Board of Education on Tuesday revived the county school district’s 10-day spring break after a one-year hiatus.

In October, the school board began discussions about the 2019-2020 Montgomery County Public Schools calendar, reviewing two options, one of which would operate similarly to this year’s calendar with a six-day spring break, while the second featured the longer break...

...The state mandates 180 instructional days, allowing the proposed 181st and 182nd days to function as make-up days should there be unexpected school closures throughout the year. Both calendars identify the first two days of spring break as possible make-up days for emergency closings. Under the adopted calendar, those days will be Jan. 27 and April 6 and 7, 2020.

Schools will close Dec. 23, 2019, for winter break and the approved calendar includes non-instructional days to coincide with Rosh Hashanah on Sept. 30 and Yom Kippur on Oct. 9, which were identified in a district-wide survey as days that parents, students and community members preferred to be out of school...

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