| Developing the Student Calendar
Three years ago, Chico Unified School District adopted a student calendar that is in its final year (view the current student calendar here). Staff will be making a recommendation to our school board in January 2009, to adopt a new three-year student calendar, and we are soliciting feedback from all our stakeholders regarding that calendar. We will collect information from both our internal and external communities from now until mid-December. If you are interested in doing so, please take a moment to provide us your opinions at the bottom of the page.
Here are some of the parameters around the student calendar:
- Students must be in school 180 days.
- CUSD must maximize student attendance, for both academic and monetary reasons.
- Approximately 10,000 CUSD students take the state mandated STAR tests each spring, which must occur after about 85% of the school year has been completed.
- For academic reasons, secondary teachers, as well as some students, have expressed a strong preference for having the first semester of the school year end prior to the beginning of Winter Break.
Additional information which may be helpful:
- An analysis of attendance data from 2005-2006, the final year prior to the adoption of the current three-year calendar, reveals that CUSD student attendance has improved by taking the entire week of Thanksgiving off.
- Chico State and Butte College have adopted similar student calendars with respect to their Spring breaks, which now includes March 17, St. Patrick's Day.
To provide input as a CUSD Stakeholder, please click here and answer the following questions:
- Please indicate whether you are a student, staff member, parent, or community member.
- What do you like about the current student calendar?
- What suggestions do you have to improve the student calendar?
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