Schools
District Rewrites School Calendar After Sandy
The South Orange-Maplewood Board of Education changed this school year's schedule following the storm.
Classes will now be in session on Feb. 14, 2013, to compensate for a day lost to Superstorm Sandy, putting students and teachers on track for the state-mandated 180 days of school, district officials announced.
Any further school days lost this year will be taken from April recess, according to a revised schedule voted on by the South Orange-Maplewood Board of Education Monday.
Schools were scheduled to be closed for the two-day New Jersey Education Association convention Thursday, Nov. 8 and Friday, Nov. 9. Schools were also scheduled to be closed for students for teacher training on Election Day, Nov. 6.
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After schools were closed because of a lack of power after Sandy and the statewide convention was cancelled, most students attended school Nov. 6 and Nov. 8-9. With the addition of Thursday, Feb. 14 to the school calendar, no schools owe any further make-up days.
Three schools, Tuscan, Clinton and Maplewood Middle School, have no more emergency closing days available.
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School
# of Emergency Closing Days Available
Columbia High School
2 days
Maplewood Middle School
0 days
South Orange Middle School
2 days
Clinton Elementary School
0 days
Jefferson Elementary School
1 day
Marshall Elementary School
2 days
Seth Boyden Elementary School
2 days
South Mountain Elementary School
2 days
Tuscan Elementary School
0 days
Should the district escape snow days, schools that have emergency closing days remaining will have "give-back days." Those schools will close on Friday, May 24, and Tuesday, May 28, for a long Memorial Day weekend.
A revised calendar handout is attached as a PDF.
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