Reply #15: TX schools start that next year

[rainbow4321]

Supposedly, anyway.

My school district has started as early as *August 2nd* and gone til May 23d--we get a week long "fall break" each year in exchange for the early start date.
This year TX lawmakers passed a state law that says TX schools cannot start before Labor Day and have to be done by the first week of June...starts Fall 2006.
But not because of gas prices.
TX lawmakers passed it only because they were trying to keep their travel lobbyists happy---THEY wanted families to still do take vacations and stuff the month of August and also wanted student labor for that month.
Plus , per the lawmakers, a portion of the Hispanic population we have in TX needed the extra time off cuz for migrant workers not getting their kids back in time for August start dates and they were missing schooldays. I still say that the lawmakers were only out to please the lobbyist$.