Change in Public School Calendar: School Starts September 9th

I just heard from a member of the United Federation of Teachers that an important change to next year's calendar was made late last night. Next year public school starts on Wednesday September 9th not September 8th as originally planned. Here's why

Okay, you may have heard this already, but I just got an email about this less than an hour ago.

 

The NYC Dept. of Education has just changed the school calendar for next year - tonight!

I'm a UFT member, and we signed an agreement a few days ago to change our starting day to the day after Labor day, as opposed to before Labor Day. This would put it in line with the way it used to be before our last contract.

But the principal's union objected, because that meant we were coming back the same day as the kids. So tonight, they signed a NEW agreement changing the day the KIDS start to the Wednesday after Labor Day. That's one day later than they originally planned on.

 

Here's a link to the official calendar. You'll notice it says "Revised as of June 25, 2009".

 

http://schools.nyc.gov/NR/rdonlyres/F5C4C865-B4FF-45BE-A396-536C0695EEDB/64220/20092010SchoolYearCalendarRev.pdf