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5410 - Holidays

  • Policy

The district will observe the following school holidays and will not operate on these days:

  1. Sunday;
  2. New Years’ Day January 1);
  3. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day (third Monday in January);
  4. President’s Day (third Monday in February);
  5. Memorial Day (last Monday in May);
  6. Juneteenth (June 19);
  7. Independence Day (July 4);
  8. Labor Day (first Monday in September);
  9. Veteran’s Day (November 11);
  10. Thanksgiving Day (fourth Thursday in November);
  11. The day after Thanksgiving; and
  12. Christmas Day (December 25).

Whenever any legal holiday, other than a Sunday, falls on Sunday, the following Monday will be a legal holiday, and whenever any legal holiday falls on a Saturday, the preceding Friday will be a legal holiday.

 

Cross References:

Policy 2336 – Required Observances (Veterans Day, Constitution Day, Temperance and Good Citizenship Day, Disability History Month)

 

Legal References: 

RCW 1.16.050         Legal holidays and legislatively recognized days

RCW 28A.150.050   School Holidays

 

Management Resources:

March 2022

December 2022

 

Adoption Date:  September 20, 2006

Revised Dates: October 18, 2023

 

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