As students prepare for the final few days of the current school year, administrators all over Illinois remain in a lurch as to exactly when the 2019-20 school year will start. Usually by March, school boards adopt the school calendar for the next year. But this year, the state has thrown those plans out the window. District #348 Superintendent Dr. Chuck Bleyer said the problem lies with the state’s new evidence based funding model…
For your planning purposes, Bleyer said he hopes to begin the next school year on August 12th with a teacher’s institute with the first day for students tentatively scheduled for August 14th. But again, those aren’t set in stone until the district gets guidance from Springfield.