SALISBURY – School system officials this week approved a calendar for the 2023-2024 academic year that starts after Labor Day.
On Tuesday, the Wicomico County Board of Education voted unanimously to approve a post-Labor Day start to the 2023-2024 school year.
Board Chair Gene Malone noted that while an overwhelming majority of survey respondents supported an academic calendar starting Sept. 5 and ending June 13, several had submitted comments pertaining to other dates within the proposed calendar. Those comments, officials say, will be taken into consideration, and a revised post-Labor Day calendar would be presented to the board in February.
“We’re not trying to over-engineer the calendar for next year …,” Malone said. “It was an overwhelming response for a post-Labor Day start, but there were a lot of suggestions about other tweaks to the calendar. We have time, so we should look at it.”
In December, Kim Miles, assistant superintendent for student and family services, presented the school board with a pre-Labor Day and post-Labor Day draft school calendar for consideration. While both versions were similar, they proposed different start dates, end days and professional days.