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Thursday, November 03, 2005

Kingsport City Schools offer calndar survey

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From: Greear, Amy [mailto:agreear@k12k.com]
 

Kingsport City Schools Offers Calendar Survey

 

KINGSPORT – Kingsport City Schools is offering staff, parents and students the opportunity to express their preferences for the 2006-2007 school calendar through an online survey.

 

The survey, featured on the Kingsport City School’s website at www.k12k.com, allows viewers to examine three calendar drafts. The final calendar can be any of three, a combination of the three, or a version with changes based on input.

 

All calendars require that students attend 180 days of school and that the first semester end before Winter Break. Both semesters contain 90 student days. Spring Break is schedule for the last week of March which should coordinate with the Sullivan County and Bristol Tennessee school calendars.

 

The Kingsport Board of Education will consider the results of the survey and is expected to make a decision on the final school calendar during their December 1, 2005 school board meeting. Survey results will be collected until November 14. Hard copies of the survey will also be offered at each school.

 

For more information on the school calendar survey, please contact the Kingsport City Schools Community Relations Office at (423) 378-2123.

 

-KCS-

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