The Cherokee County School Board has affirmed the residents’ responses in a survey by opposing state-mandated changes to the school calendar.
“Neither I nor the School Board have any plans to change our calendar; we wanted to gather your input so the state Legislature would know where we stand when it considers this issue,” schools Superintendent Brian V. Hightower said at the Thursday, Sept. 13, board meeting.
Following reports that a Senate study committee will be looking at requiring all Georgia public schools to push back the first day of school to after Labor Day, the Cherokee schools conducted a survey and found 80 percent of parents, 86 percent of employees and 83 percent of student delegates opposed to a September school start.
Full survey findings are posted at: https://bit.ly/2CZB20F
“It’s clear that our community supports local control and keeping our school calendar,” Hightower said.
School Board Chair Kyla Cromer said all the state legislators representing Cherokee have said they will not support a state-mandated calendar.
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