School Community Brainstorms Ideas to Make Up Lost Days

Superintendent Daniel Simon expected to present conclusion to the BOE next week

Take away the February break? Eliminate spring break? Add days on to the end of the school year? All options are up for discussion as the Wall School District administration looks to adjust its calendar to make up days lost to Hurricane Sandy while meeting the state-mandated 180-day school year. Superintendent Daniel Simon, Director of Technology Jeff Janover, Mayor Jeff Foster and Police Chief Robert Brice led an open forum Tuesday night at the Intermediate School in which the challenge of making up lost days was discussed as was the township's emergency communication procedures. "We have a very difficult task at hand," Simon said, while acknowledging that any decision he reaches on school days will impact some families who may have …

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