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Two year-round schools switched to traditional calendars and the Dixon
Unified School District added an extra week to winter break, said
Superintendent Wally Holbrook. The board made the calendar
changes in June. (Audrey Wong--Daily Republic, Fairfield-Suisun
City, California &endash;8/12/2003)
The year-round program at H.T. Burt Elementary School has been
eliminated. The end of the year-round program means that the
school will revert to the regular district wide calendar.
(County Line Reminder, Clarkston, MI. 4/13/97)
The Caldwell County Board of Education decided to end the four-year
dual calendar pilot program and go back to a traditional school calendar.
(Daily Record, Hickory, NC, 1/29/97)
The Myrtle Beach Board of Education will support the decision of the
curriculum committee and the Myrtle Beach Advisory Board of Trustees
to revert to a traditional calendar. (Sun News, Myrtle Beach, NC, 2/10/97)
Jefferson County School tried year-round school and dropped it because
it didn't work for them. (Garden City Telegram, Garden City, KS, 1/31/97)
After one year as a year-round school, Byrkit High likely will return to a
traditional calendar in August. (South Bend Tribune, South Bend, IN, 7/2/96)
Members of the Asheboro City Board of Education have voted to eliminate
the year-round program at North Asheboro Middle School.
(Randolph Guide, Asheboro, NC, 3/20/96)
Seminole County's School Board voted to dump the year-round calendar in
most of the 39 schools that had been trying it.
(The Florida Times-Union, Jacksonville, FL, 10/31/95)
The Orange County school board has voted to eliminate its single-track,
year-round school calendar after seven years of year-round schooling.
(Tallahassee Democrat, Tallahassee, FL, 8/28/95)
The year-round calendar experiment ended for the Osceola County School
District after four years. (Osceola News-Gazette, Kissimmee, FL, 6/15/95)
The Board of Education-responding to what was a concern by some
options committee members that the issue would resurface-cemented
the book shut on year-round education at Flemington-Raritan.
It recognized the work of the Year-Round Education Committee.
(The Courier-News, Bridgewater, NJ, 5/21/95)
The year-round programs, which never moved beyond a pilot basis at
MacArthur and Homer Drive Elementary in the Beaumont School District,
will end in August. (Enterprise, Beaumont TX, 6/27/95)
The Osceola County School Board voted 3-2 to have all of their 24 public
schools on a traditional school calendar. That move will end the county's
four year-old experiment with YRE. (Osceola Sentinel, 3/7/95)
As the school year comes to an end, students in Yuma Elementary School
District 1 will not only say goodbye to classmates and teachers, but to the
year-round calendar. The district is going back to a modified calendar at
all of its schools to align itself with Yuma Union High School District's
calendar. Officials call the new calendar modified instead of traditional
because students have a week off in the fall that the high school district
does not have on its calendar. (Yuma Daily Sun, Yuma, AZ, 6/10/98)
Seven years after beginning its year-round school experiment, the Duval
County School Board has decided to give summers back to all students.
It will be the first time since 1991 that all 150 public schools in Jacksonville
will open and close at the same time.
(News-Journal, Daytona Beach, FL, 3/19/98)
During the past five years, 20 public schools in Jacksonville switched to
modified calendars. Florida Times-Union reported that all but 10 have
switched back and those remaining plan to ask the school board to
return them to the traditional calendar.
(Florida Times-Union, Jacksonville, FL, 11/18/97)
The Yuma Elementary School District 1 plans to drop its year-round
calendar in favor of a schedule that would give students a summer
break of eight or more weeks. (Yuma Daily Sun, Yuma, AZ, 7/31/97)
The Aurora school board has decided to eliminate year-round classes
at Columbia Middle and Yale Elementary schools.
(Rocky Mountain, Denver, CO, 9/18/97)
The district scrapped the (year-round) system earlier this year because
it became increasingly difficult to manage.
(Dave Brooks, Register Pajaronian, 8/27, 2003)
A plan that would return all county schools to a traditional calendar for
the first time in eight years was accepted by the Orange County School
Board. The year-round setup has been under constant attack from
parents and educators because of its confusing schedules and the
difficulties it created for parents with one child in a year-round school
and one in a traditional school.
(Orlando-Sentinel, Fort Lauerdale, Fl, 1/23/97)
Saying the year-round program at Hall Fletcher isn't worth the trouble,
the School Board voted unanimously to officially scrap the program
and return the school permanently to a traditional nine-month calendar.
(Citizen Times, Asheville, NC, 12/9/97)
Parents of children at Black Mountain Primary School received a letter
announcing year-round school will not be offered next year. The four-year
pilot program was canceled at the school after a survey showed there
was not enough interest in the year-round program to continue.
(News, Black Mountain, NC, 3/27/97)
Lackluster enrollment at Codington Elementary School set to open this
fall spurred a call for dropping the school's planned year-round program.
(Star News, Wilmington, NC, 1/7/97)
Allen Jay Elementary School officials are calling it quits on the year-round
school program because of lack of interest.
(Enterprise, High Point, NC, 5/1/96)
Myrtle Beach Middle School lost its year-round school calendar after two
years of offering parents and students a choice between year-round
and traditional schedules. The decision of the Horry County Board
of Education was based on low sing-up rates.
(Sun News, Myrtle Beach, SC, 2/20/96)
College Station school trustees ended year-round education for Rock
Prairie Elementary School in a 5-1 vote Monday due to an insufficient
number of participating students.
(Bryan-College Station Eagle, Bryan, TX, 4/16/96)
The Huron Valley School District will stop offering its year-round schools
program to special education students because too few are willing to
participate. (Commerce Spinal Column, Commerce, MI, 11/8/95)
The Conroe School board voted unanimously to abolish the district's
year-round education program because of the minimum number of
current year-round students was not met.
(Conroe Courier, Conroe, TX, 12/13/95)
The year Round Education (YRE) pilot program at Dr. E.R. Richter
Elementary was canceled for the 1995-96 school year on a 4-3 vote
of the school board. What killed the program was a combination
of financial considerations and low student numbers.
(Liberty Gazette, Liberty, TX, 9/27/95)
Because of steep reductions in federal funding and an apparent lack
of enthusiasm for its year-round class schedule, Cameron Elementary
School will return to a traditional calendar.
(Odessa American, Odessa, TX, 6/21/95)
Saying that most students aren't interested in going to school year-round,
Chowan Middle School officials have decided to discontinue the school's
Optional Year-Round Educational program for the 1998-99 school year.
(Daily Advance, Elizabeth City, NC, 5/8/98)
The Volusia County School Board abandoned its trial of year-round
schools without fanfare Tuesday as it adopted one calendar for all
schools starting in August. Superintendent Joan Kowal's
recommendation to drop the program came at the same time
Southeast Volusia parents were signing petitions asking for a
return to a traditional calendar.
(The News-Journal, Dayton Beach, FL, 2/14/96)
At a time when many school districts around the state are considering
alternative calendars and year-round schools, the Floyd County School
district is moving back toward the traditional calendar. Superintendent
Dr. John Balantine said he sent ballots to school employees asking
them which calendar they preferred. The overwhelming majority--
741 to 260--indicated they preferred a traditional calendar.
(The Floyd County Times, Prestonsburg, KY, 5/17/96)
By synchronizing school calendars, the district also doesn't have to hire
staff for extended periods and can cut miles on bus routes, Holbrook said.
(Audrey Wong, Daily Republic, Fairfield-Suisun City, California, 8/12/2003)
Plans are underway to end the year-round program at Mary Washington
Howe Elementary School and use the facility to house a pre-kindergarten
program. Tax-payer dollars should not be wasted to open new year-round
schools when Howe elementary is under capacity. The community should
be outraged about the abuse of its tax dollars and the discrimination
taking place in the schools of New Hanover County.
(Journal, Wilmington, NC, 12/19/97)
Cache County's YRS program was discontinued this summer, which
may disqualify them for state building funds. The district must certify
to the state Board of Education that it has a building- use program that
includes YRS or double sessions.
(Salt Lake Tribune, Salt Lake City, Utah, 9/30/94)
But the district had to make the change (to a traditional school calendar)
to save money, he said. (Audrey Wong, Daily Republic, 8/12/2003)
Having all students attend school at the same time can be an advantage
when it comes to receiving district services, Robertson said.
(Audrey Wong, Daily Republic, 8/12/2003)
A Seminole County committee found that multi-track schools, where
students are on staggered schedules, fared worse than traditional and
single-track schools in a comparison of test scores. But that doesn't
account for all variables. (Orlando Sentinel, Orlando, Fl, 10/18/95)
Superintendent John Kowal called for an end to multi-track year-round
school in Volusia County. Findings indicate teachers had mixed emotions
on whether or not the calendar increased student motivation. The results
also show teachers were "negative" about student discipline and staff
educational opportunities. The results show more parents found their
children learned more on the traditional calendar than they did last year
on the year-round schedule. Statistics also show the majority of students
do not think they learned more on the year-round calendar.
(New Smyrna Beach Observer, New Smyrna Beach, FL, 11/14/95)
Three years after the school district approved the operation of the first
year-round program in the state, Stainton Elementary in Laurel, district
officials are ending the program because test scores do not justify the
dollars spent to keep the school open. (Hattiesburg American,,
Hattiesburg, MS, 6/25/95
Board members say they've closed the Trenton year-round school
because it wasn't working the way it should. Preliminary findings from
the school administration showed student test scores weren't as high
as anticipated. (Times, Trenton, NJ, 5/6/98)
With the new system (a traditional calendar) all staff members can
attend development programs and not miss out because of conflicts.
(Audrey Wong, Daily Republic, Fairfield-Suisun City, California, 8/12/2003)
School Board members in Orange County, Florida's largest year-round
school district, voted to scrap the year-round calendar in 40 of its schools
and work on alternatives to the multi-track calendar used at 24 others for
overcrowding reasons. (The Florida Times-Union, Jacksonville, FL, 10/31/95)
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