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December 13, 2005
Put your special interests down and step away from local decisionsWant to know what happens when lawmakers play school board and start taking away decisions that ought to be made at the local level? Take a look at this article from the Charlotte Observer. It seems that several North Carolina school districts will begin the 2006-07 school year on ... a Friday!
Why? Because state lawmakers, at the urging of the tourism industry, mandated school calendar start and end dates for every school district. Fitting in the required 180 school days around traditional holidays and testing schedules has left school boards with little flexibility. Thus, the school year will begin for many students on a Friday.
"It's silly," Charlotte-Mecklenburg school board vice chair and high school parent Kit Cramer said. "This is what happens when we don't have the flexibility to make this decision ourselves."
The North Carolina School Boards Association opposed the mandated school calendar law. More background on the issue here.
Posted December 13, 2005 12:05 PM
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