Dallas ISD is asking campus staff and parents/guardians to provide additional feedback on the calendar for the 2023-2024 school year. Please respond to the survey below by 5 p.m. on Sunday, March 5.Calendars for the 2023-2024 and 2024-2025 school year were approved by the Board of Trustees in December. However, for the 2023-2024 school year, Tax-Free Weekend is the weekend after the start of that calendar. Administration has taken feedback and would like to offer another option for consideration. Based on the feedback results for the 2023-2024 calendar, adjustments could be made to the 2024-2025 calendar.Option 1: Calendar currently approvedOption 2: Adjustments from Option 1
- Teacher start date of August 3 instead of August 1
- Student start date of August 14 rather than August 9
- January 8 becomes a ½ day professional development and a ½ day teacher workday
- January 9 becomes the first day back for students after winter break rather than January 10
- February 19 becomes a virtual professional development day similar to November 7 (District has a waiver for 2,100 minutes of professional development that can be used in place of instructional minutes)
- May 24 becomes a ½ day student instructional day and a ½ day teacher workday with this being the last day for both students and teachers
- Teachers would receive credit for 2 days of parent conferences instead of 1 day
