PARENTS SCUTTLE PLANS FOR SCHOOL DISTRICT TO START YEAR IN AUGUST.Byline: Marci Wormser Staff Writer PALMDALE - Parents' complaints resulted in the Palmdale School District The Palmdale School District is a school district that serves a major part of the city of Palmdale, California (USA). The Palmdale School District was first formed in 1888. Approximately 28,000 students are enrolled in the Palmdale School District. canceling plans to start the school year in August in order to make winter and spring breaks each a week longer. Under the revised proposal, the school year will begin Sept. 2, and students would be given two weeks' vacation in winter, one week in spring and one week at Thanksgiving Thanksgiving annual U.S. holiday celebrating harvest and yearly blessings; originated with Pilgrims (1621). [Am. Culture: EB, IX: 922] See : America Thanksgiving national holiday with luxurious dinner as chief ritual. [Am. Pop. , said district superintendent District Superintendent may be:
``The Calendar Committee got some bad responses from parents,'' Smith said. The district will take public comments until March 21, when the schedule is expected to be adopted in its final form, Smith said. The new calendar will reduce state funding by a couple hundred thousand dollars from the previous plan, Smith said. However, administrators had not been counting on the extra money in working on the district's tight budget, she said. On March 1, district administrators proposed starting the new school year Aug. 18 and lengthening lengthening (lengkˑ·the·ning), n the use of various massage or muscle energy techniques to relax and stretch muscle and connective tissue. winter break to three weeks and spring break to two weeks to accommodate families who travel to see relatives outside the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. and don't return until after classes have resumed. The district also proposed the extension of Thanksgiving vacation to a full week because 40 percent of students are absent the day before Thanksgiving. The large absences of students after the winter and spring holidays cause the district to lose substantial state funding based on attendance, officials said. Parents requested the extra vacation days during winter and spring, Smith said. But after the new schedule was released, administrators received complaints about children having to return to school in August. If pupils return to school in August, some parents said, it would not match the Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley Union High School District's schedule, which starts in September. In addition, the district would have to pay more for air conditioning air conditioning, mechanical process for controlling the humidity, temperature, cleanliness, and circulation of air in buildings and rooms. Indoor air is conditioned and regulated to maintain the temperature-humidity ratio that is most comfortable and healthful. , since August is a hot month. The school-schedule change came after the district, in a cost-cutting move, decided to eliminate the present ``three-track'' schedule. That schedule has several shorter breaks that put pupils in and out of school at different times. |
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