The school calendar law was passed in 2004 amid complaints about the summer vacation season being shortened by schools ...

For centuries, attempts to sync calendars with the length of the natural year have sowed chaos—until the concept of leap year provided a way to make up for lost time. “It all comes down to the ...

The start and end of the school year for students represents a return to a schedule that resembles previous years. Chicago ...

The city Department of Education academic calendar includes some two-dozen days off between the first day of school on ...

New Year’s Day marks the first day of the Gregorian calendar, something we’ve become fairly familiar with around the world. While 25 March (named after the Roman god of war) was traditionally ...