Word: calendaring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Next Tuesday's schedule for first-years now goes back to the one originally scheduled in the spring and sent to first-years in the 1994 Calendar of Opening Days...
...Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA) will be replacing all the remaining 86 34-year-old Red Line cars over the remainder of the calendar year with new, up-to-date train cars...
...private school in Oakland, California, operates 240 days a year, with vacations scheduled at parents' leisure. More commonly, however, schools have simply reorganized the traditional 180-day schedule. At Park View, classes run for nine weeks, followed by a three-week break, a schedule known as a 45/15 calendar. Other schools, such as those in the Socorro Independent School District in El Paso County, Texas, use a 60/20 model: 60 days of school followed by 20 days of vacation...
...facilities more efficiently. Some overcrowded schools stagger students into different tracks, ensuring that a fraction of the student body will be away during every grading period. Socorro schools were able to serve 2,000 more children during the 1993-94 academic year because of its multitrack calendar, a great help in a district that grows by 1,500 kids a year...
Parents can be difficult to convert as well. Many hold tight to the tradition of long summer holidays, touting family outings as valuable experiences that provide quality time with their children. "The traditional school calendar is too deeply embedded in me," says Debbie Lanier of Mooresville. "We live on a lake, and we couldn't enjoy it in other months." But other parents find the life-style change beneficial. Says Robin Andrews, a landscape designer in Mooresville who has two children in the year-round program: "We can take the kids on vacations that are less crowded and less expensive...