ARTICLE 7 - SCHOOL CALENDAR AND EMPLOYEE WORK YEAR
  1. A joint committee on school calendar shall be established and shall consist of two (2) representatives selected by the Executive Committee of the Association and two (2) representatives appointed by the Board. The non-voting chairperson of the committee shall be the Superintendent, or the Superintendent's designee, making it a committee of five members. The committee shall meet to consider and recommend to the Board a calendar for the ensuing year. The committee shall submit its recommendations to the Board prior to January 1 or as soon thereafter as the recommendations are completed.
  2. The school calendar for the ensuing year, as determined in paragraph A, shall be published immediately following Board adoption.
  3. The school calendar shall consist of one hundred eighty-three (183) days. Three (3) days may be used at the discretion of the Board to compensate for emergency school closings or for establishing professional conference days, or both. Whenever one of these days is used as a professional conference day, teachers and teacher assistants shall report in order to engage in professional development and planning activities. Should any of the three (3) days for these purposes remain unused, the Board, at its discretion, may close schools a number of days equal to the number of unused days. It is understood that, should more than three (3) days be used for emergency closings, the spring recess may be affected.



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