Hopatcong School Board Delays Calendar Choice
Concerns over tests, busing and vo-tech schedules delay decision
Faced with many options and uncertainty about prospective costs for what might be additional busing if changes were made, the Board of Education tabled setting the 2013-14 school year calendar until later this month. The district must schedule 180 instructional days, but the decision is complicated by an early 2013 Labor Day -- Sept. 2 -- new state teacher assessment requirements that Superintendent Charles Maranzano said make two early in-service days necessary, and a board desire to move the 2014 spring break to the week before Easter to allow for instructional continuity before students in grades seven and eight take the annual state exams. The board must also build in a few snow days, which traditionally has been done by adding days …
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8:43 pm on Saturday, February 9, 2013
In my school district, they are having the teachers take those 16 hours of professional development for the new evaluation system this school year, before June. Is there a possibility of that for Hopatcong? Some of the hours will be on our own time, or on the final two half days, before the summer vacation starts, in the afternoon. Then, they won't have to do this in early September. more ›