Community input leads the district to adjust recommendations on whether to start the school year Aug. 7, kill honors classes, require 50 percent of students to take Advanced Placement courses and require all students to take a lunch period.
Students at Niles North and Niles West High Schools won’t have to change their summer plans in order to head back to school the second week of August next year. After receiving input from students, teachers and parents at a district town hall meeting, online and at PTA meetings in sender elementary districts, the Niles Township High School District 219 administration pushed its recommendation to push the school start back until the 2014-2015 school year, and board members suggested that it might not happen even then. Earlier: Parents weigh in on proposed changes The proposed calendar change was just one topic in an extended discussion of the district’s annual review of programs at the Nov. 26 school board meeting. The meeting was the …
Niles West and Niles North High Schools (D-219) are looking at a calendar change, requested by students, that would have them starting school two weeks earlier in August. But will it jive with grade schools, parks?
Students at Niles West and Niles North high schools could have a short summer next year, if the district moves ahead with a recommendation to start school in mid-August. The plan, which is included in the district’s annual review of programs, calls for classes to start about two weeks earlier than they do now. (School started on Aug. 21 this year; two weeks earlier would have been Aug. 7.) The first semester would end before winter break, and the second semester would end in May. “It was our own students who brought this to us,” said District 219 Superintendent Nanciann Gatta. “And it’s not the first time the idea has been raised. It’s been coming up for about 10 years.” Earlier: High school students skipping lunch to take more classes …
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11:08 am on Tuesday, October 9, 2012
This schedule change is being proposed for district 219 only. It will affect teachers at the high schools, which you are not. Even IF it is implemented at the high schools, it will be up to each individual feeder district to make its own decision regarding whether or not to follow suit. That is the time at which it would be appropriate for you to approach your own administration and school board… more ›