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. After schools were closed because of a lack of power after Sandy and the statewide convention was cancelled, most students attended …
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