School calendar to be crafted by committee
A committee of mostly school system staffers will toss around the hot potato known as the school calendar.
The question of when students should be on vacation was touchy enough to become an election issue in Cobb County last year. Last week, the school board unanimously approved Superintendent Michael Hinojosa’s method for drafting the next calendar, which would be approved in October.
Eight parents, two representatives of business and higher education and eleven school system personnel will be appointed to craft a two-year calendar starting in August.
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Ty Tagami is a staff writer for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Since joining the newspaper in 2002, he has written about everything from hurricanes to homelessness. He has deep experience covering local government and education, and can often be found under the Gold Dome when lawmakers meet or in a school somewhere in the state.
