The Wake County Board of Education on Tuesday discussed school calendars for the 2020-21 school year based on new legislation approved by lawmakers in late April. Watch the discussion.

A recent state law includes several mandates that we must follow:

• Traditional Calendar First Day: Aug. 17, 2020; Last Day: June 10, 2020 

• We must add 5 Remote Learning (RL) days to all calendars.

• We must meet a minimum of 1,025 instructional hours in a year that includes the 5 Remote Learning days.

• We must add 5 individually separate and distinct full in-person instructional days that we are referring as Session Law days.

These provisions have created some constraints. For example, traditional calendar teachers will have five fewer teacher workdays this year under this proposal to allow for the five required in-person instruction days known as the Session Law days.

We also are proposing two days off for teachers and students designated as Calendar Out (C) days. 

Full proposed calendar.

The school board expects to approve 2020-21 calendars on June 2.

Please share your feedback about this proposed calendar below.

• Track 1 Start and End Dates: Aug. 3, 2020-June 3, 2021

• Track 2 Start and End Dates: Aug. 3, 2020-June 29, 2021

• Track 3 Start and End Dates: Aug. 3, 2020-June 29, 2021

• Track 4 Start and End Dates: Aug. 17, 2020-June 29, 2021 

The state legislature passed a law that includes a number of mandates we must follow in developing school calendars:

• We must add 5 Remote Learning (RL) days to all calendars.

• We must meet a minimum of 1,025 instructional hours in a year that includes the 5 Remote Learning days.

• We must add 5 individually separate and distinct full in-person instructional days that we are referring as Session Law days.

These provisions have created some constraints. For example, we had hoped we could have planned for more than five remote learning days to help meet instruction hour requirements. But that is not allowed under state law. Therefore we are proposing to add 15 minutes to each school day to meet the state requirement. Our other alternatives were up to six full school days held on Saturdays or shortening holiday breaks. We felt adding 15 minutes to the school day would be the least disruptive of those options.

Full proposed calendar.

The board expects to approve 2020-21 calendars on June 2.

Please share your feedback and questions below.

The Wake County Board of Education on Tuesday discussed school calendars for the 2020-21 school year based on new legislation approved by lawmakers in late April. Watch the discussion.

First Day of School: Aug. 3, 2020

Last Day of School: June 7, 2020

• We must add 5 Remote Learning (RL) days to all calendars.

• We must meet a minimum of 1,025 instructional hours in a year that includes the 5 Remote Learning days.

• We must add 5 individually separate and distinct full in-person instructional days that we are referring as Session Law days.

Full proposed calendar.

The board expects to approve 2020-21 calendars on June 2.

Please share feedback and questions about this proposed calendar below.

The Wake County Board of Education on Tuesday discussed school calendars for the 2020-21 school year based on new legislation approved by lawmakers in late April. Watch the discussion.

Calendars for Early College schools are still being finalized in coordination with their university partners, though we expect they will be similar to calendars previously approved by the school board.

We will provide updates as soon as we have them.

• We must add 5 Remote Learning (RL) days to all calendars.

• We must meet a minimum of 1,025 instructional hours in a year that includes the 5 Remote Learning days.

• We must add 5 individually separate and distinct full in-person instructional days that we are referring as Session Law days.

Please share feedback and questions about the Early College calendars below.

El martes, la Junta Directiva Escolar del Condado Wake trató sobre los calendarios escolares para el año escolar 2020-21 en base a la nueva legislación aprobada por los legisladores a fines de abril. Pedimos disculpas porque muchas personas no pudieron ver la reunión en vivo y estamos trabajando para hacer mejoras para el futuro. Haga clic en este enlace para ver una grabación de la sesión de trabajo de la junta.

La siguiente información proporciona actualizaciones basadas en algunas preguntas que hemos recibido desde entonces. 

• Calendario tradicional propuesto
• Calendario de ciclo continuo propuesto 
• Calendario modificado propuesto

Hacer preguntas adicionales y proporcionar comentarios:

On Tuesday, June 2, the Wake County Board of Education will discuss a proposal for all single-track schools to convert to the traditional calendar for the 2020-21 school year. If this change were made, it would apply only to the 2020-2021 school year.  Currently traditional calendar students are proposed to start school on Aug. 17, 2020 and end  on June 10, 2021. View proposed traditional calendar.

Why is this being proposed?

A new state law approved in April does not allow our school system to use the single-track year-round calendar. 

Why are single-track calendars treated differently than multi-track calendar schools?

We are proposing to start multi-track year-round schools in August rather than July because it is likely that restrictions to protect public health will still be in place in July. There are not enough days in this compressed calendar to allow us to comply with the nine weeks on, three weeks off required by state law. 

The new state law specifically states that single-track schools must have nine weeks in school followed by three weeks out of school. That same rule of nine weeks on and three weeks off is not required of multi-track year-round schools.

What are the next steps?

The board will discuss this proposal, along with other proposed school calendars, during their virtual work session on the afternoon of Tuesday, June 2. Final approval of any changes to the single-track calendar would occur at the school board’s June 16 meeting.

Please share your feedback about this proposal below.