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Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Oswego 308 Board Approves 2013-14 School Calendar With Many Changes

School will officially start two days earlier on Monday, Aug. 19 and first semester will end before winter break.

The Oswego 308 School board unanimously approved the 2013-14 Oswego 308 school calendar, which featured  an earlier start date, removed half days and pushed all school improvement days to the beginning and end of the semesters.  "Achievement is our bottom line," said Superintendent Matthew Wendt of the calendar. "As long as we can say student achievement is improving, we’re headed in the right direction." The vote was unanimous Monday evening, although board president Bill Walsh said he did have reservations about the earlier start date of the calendar, which is on Monday, Aug. 19 instead of previous years where school started in the middle of the week Wednesday or Thursday. "I do not like the calendar," Walsh said bluntly. "But the …

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Big Changes Proposed for District 308 Calendar

ayar

3:11 pm on Monday, March 4, 2013

What the heck were they thinking about those start times ? By the way, how about an AMERICAN class education. "world class" isn't looking so hot lately...   more ›

Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Big Changes Proposed for District 308 Calendar

Plus changes to parent/teacher conferences, institute days and early dismissals days.

The 2013-14 Oswego District 308 school year calendar may be seeing some big changes, including start date, semester end date and teacher institute days. “This calendar should truly reflect not only what was important to parents, teachers, administrators and the board, but the overarching goal to make sure calendar served the goal of teaching and learning in the district,” said superintendent Matthew Wendt at the School Board's Monday night meeting. “Is it perfect? No. Is it improved? Yes?” Want free local news in your inbox every morning? Sign up for our e-newsletter. The tentative draft of the new calendar would have students in grades 1-12 beginning school Monday, Aug. 19 rather than in the middle of the week as it has been. Kindergarten…

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Oswego Community Unit School District 308 and Oswego East High School

Mel

9:13 am on Wednesday, February 27, 2013

If your child is good in school and you as a family want to go somewhere, just call them out sick. We have had to do this in the past mainly due to funds. A lot cheaper to travel off season than during the schools regular days off and we still get the nice weather. We have saved almost half off of vacation packages. That is one way we have made our cut backs in our house during these bad …   more ›

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