The Examiner U-46 News FeedFormal approval given to U-46 school year calendar By Seth Hancock
The Board of Education in School District U-46 unanimously approved, the final 2021-2022 school calendar at its meeting on Monday, May 16.
The calendar had one change, according to agenda data, based on the change in date for the primary elections.
The agenda item stated: “Annually, the Board of Education is required to adopt a final School Calendar and submit it to the Kane County Regional Office of Education…. March 15, 2022 was changed to a student attendance day due to the primary election date moving to June 28, 2022.”
In 2021, Senate Bill 825 was approved which required schools to make themselves available as polling places and changed the primary election date. Illinois also encourages schools that are polling places to not hold classes on election day.
As far as the U-46 calendar, the first day of classes was Monday, Aug. 16 (Aug. 23 for preschool) with teachers reporting on Thursday, Aug. 12, and the final day of classes was Friday, May 27. High school graduation was Saturday, May 28.
“We have so much to celebrate with our graduating seniors,” Superintendent Tony Sanders said in a district press release. “Nearly 500 students are graduating from our Dual Language program, who have the linguistic skills to be successful in college, career, and life. Other students took advantage of an opportunity to earn a year’s worth or more of college credits, or enrolled in the various educational pathways we offer that can lead to promising careers right out of high school. Wherever they go next, I’m proud of the Class of 2022 and know that they are going to make a difference in their communities and the world.”
There were 184 teacher attendance days and 176 instructional days on the calendar.
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