Series 6000: Instruction

6111 School Calendar 

The Superintendent of Schools shall recommend school calendars meeting all statutory requirements to the Board of Education for its review and modified as it believes appropriate, for its approval. 

The calendars recommended to the Board may include the operation of schools on state holidays providing a suitable nonsectarian educational program is held to observe the holiday, except for those holidays that occur in December and January. 

The school calendar shall show school days in each school month, the number of school days in each month, legal and local holidays, staff development days, early closing days, vacation periods, and other pertinent dates, including the firm graduation date for students in grade twelve. 

The Board, in establishing a graduation date, may establish for any school year a firm graduation date which is no earlier than the one-hundred eighty-first (181) day in the original adopted school calendar. 

To benefit children, families, and school staff in their planning, multiple year school calendars are preferable to single year school calendars. 

(cf. 6146 – Graduation Requirements) 

Legal Reference:    

Connecticut General Statutes

1-4 Days designated as legal holidays

10-15 Towns to maintain schools

10-16 Length of school day

10-29a Certain days to be proclaimed by governor. Distribution and number of proclamations

10-16l Establishment of graduation date

10-261 Definitions 

Policy adopted: August 15, 2022 THOMASTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS Thomaston, Connecticut