6:020-AP2 Commemorative Holidays

The following commemorative holidays will be placed on the District calendar for all staff members to view:

• First Full Week of January – Emancipation Proclamation Week
• January 28 – Christa McAuliffe Day
• February 6 – Ronald Reagan Day
• February 15 – Susan B. Anthony Day
• March 25 – Day of Remembrance of the victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade
• March 29 – Viet Nam War Veteran’s Day
• Last Friday of April – Arbor and Bird Day
• First Full Week of School in May – Illinois Law Week
• Third Thursday in May – Volunteer Emergency Responder Appreciate Day
• Any School day in May – “Just Say No” Day
• Second Wednesday in  May – Mother Mary Ann Bickerdyke Day
• September 11 – Day of Remembrance
• Fourth Friday of September – American Indian Day
• October 1 – Recycling Day
• October 7 – Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans Remembrance Day
• October 9 – Leif Erickson Day
• November 10 – (or the school day preceding Veteran’s Day) – Korean War Veteran’s Day
• December 7 – Pearl Harbor Veteran’s Day

Date Adopted:   01/18/2011

Date Amended:  04/22/2015