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...traditional school calendar was set when children had to help out in the fields and most mothers didn't work outside the home," says Mooresville program supervisor Carol Carroll, who has seen Park View grow from 202 children in 1990 to 1,101 children, representing 49% of the town's grade- school population. "Families today have a completely different life-style. This is a program that works for how we live today...
...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...
...Rwanda, where the unstable Hutu-led government is accused of committing thousands of atrocities. Extraordinarily, even as diplomats discussed a special U.N. tribunal today to investigate genocide in the central African country, the embarrassed Security Council met privately to find a way out of its predicament. The result: some calendar tinkering that moves Rwanda out of the rotating council presidency in September, when the high-profile General Assembly convenes and the world spotlight is on the U.N.parpar