Barring unforeseen circumstances or an unexpected spring snow or ice storm, students in the Clinton County School District, although going to school a few added days in the school year, will be able to be out of classes for summer break before the last day of May.

After considerable waiting, making revisions and hard work, school officials, primarily by Director of Pupil Personnel Julie York and Superintendent Charlotte Bernard, are hopeful that a “final” revised school calendar is in place.

That most recent revised version shows the last day of classes, as well as Clinton County High School 2015 graduation, as being Friday, May 29.

Because of one of the harshest winters in several years and some other reasons that caused schools to be closed up through early March, a total of 16 days total had been missed.

Clinton County, although suffering through having to change the calendar more than once, was still more fortunate than many other areas of the state insofar as total days missed.

The school board approved the revised school calender at its regular meeting on Monday night, after reviewing the changes in depth at a work session last Thursday afternoon at the Central Office.

During the work session, York explained the new calendar to the board, including the fact that the state legislature had taken action the day before to help out school districts in Kentucky with the make-up days dilemma by allowing districts to hold school on election day, May 19, as well as waiving the 170 instructional day requirement in lieu of fulfilling the requirement of 63,720 minutes, or 1,062 hours per school year of classroom instruction.

That legislation was approved for this year only.

York also explained that at this point in the year, the district has banked several minutes each day that can be used to fulfill the instruction requirement.

The only small drawback for some students and parents will be that Spring Break will be cut back from a full week to three days, as classes will be held Monday and Tuesday, March 30 and 31, with a three-day break Wednesday through Friday, April 1-3. Students will also be out of class on Memorial Day.

With the schedule change, student testing will likely take place the week of May 11 with make-up testing May 18 through the remainder of the school year.

The calendar, as revised, also avoids the June 1-5 4-H Camp schedule that cannot be changed at this point, according to York.

As afore stated, CCHS graduation is also scheduled to take place on Friday, May 29 thus allowing all students to be out for the summer break, avoiding having to go to school into the month of June.

(Details of the board’s regular meeting held Monday night can be found on page 1.)