School Calendar Quotes

School should be eleven months of the year.

The Time to Succeed Coalition brings together an unprecedented group of leaders from education and business, communities and academia to say that it is time to strike the shackles of an outdated school calendar from our disadvantaged schools.

Of all the American educational system's problems, none is more severe than the academic year beginning before Labor Day.

We need to lengthen the school day. We need to lengthen the school year. Our calendar is based upon the agrarian economy. Children in India and China are going to school 25, 30, 35 more days a year. They're just working harder than us. So, we need more time, particularly for disadvantaged children, who aren't getting those supports at home.

As I see it, the debate between summer vacation vs. year-round school glosses over the most important questions. Namely, how can we bring play back to our nation's schools?

One of the problems we have is children are not in school long enough in the day and during the year.

School after Labor Day is now the law of the land in Maryland.

Schools should be open all day, all year.

There is no reason why any public school district in our state should be on a four-day school week. If anything, we should be extending the school year.

The system decides you can't run schools in the summer.