Wake County School District will start the year-round calendar a month later in August. | Stock Photo
Wake County School District will start the year-round calendar a month later in August. | Stock Photo
The Wake County School Board agreed to start the year-round school calendar on Aug. 3, approximately a month later than normal as the district prepares to operate in a COVID-19 world. The year-round calendar typically begins in July.
The school board discussed the possibility of pushing the single-track-year-round school to a standard calendar for the upcoming year, the News & Observer reported on June 2. District officials said the amended dates are because of a new law that alters what it means to be a year-round school The change could be approved as early as Tuesday, June 16.
Wake is pushing for lawmakers to change the guideline Superintendent Cathy Moore said, the News & Observer reported.
“We have not abandoned hope that we can get some type of a correction or an option through legislative action that would permit us to move forward," Moore said, The News & Observer reported.
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