Sandy Adds Two Days to School Calendar

Caldwell-West Caldwell Schools will add two days to the 2012-2013 calendar thanks to Superstorm Sandy.

The district's board of education will vote next week on the superintendent's recommendation to open schools on Monday, Jan. 21 and Tuesday, Feb. 19. 

January 21, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, would be an early dismissal day. February 19, the day after President's Day, was originally scheduled as a vacation day as part of a shortened winter break. 

The district had built-in four snow days for the school year. But an unprecedented Oct. 29 storm left the school's withpower power, and closed, for six days.

The storm also canceled the annual teachers' convention in Atlantic City, and the district chose to open on two days in November that normally would have been vacation days for the convention.

Caldwell-West Caldwell Schools Superintendent James Heinegg said Monday if no snow days were needed by mid-April, schools would close on the Friday before Memorial Day.

The board of education meets next on Monday, Dec. 9.