Random drug test policy abolition, calendar for 2013-14 school year on agenda are listed for discussion, vote
The Hillsborough Township Board of Education is expected Monday night to debate a recommendation on the random drug testing policy. On the board’s agenda, posted Friday, is a motion to abolish the policy.
The board’s Education Committee met Oct. 11 to discuss and recommend a policy.
The agenda lists a “motion to abolish” the policy, which has been in effect since February 2008. An attachment shows the existing policy, but no wording appears to replace or modify it.
Also on the agenda is a proposed 2013-14 school-year calendar that shows:
• The first day of school for students would be a Friday, Sept. 6. Labor Day is Sept. 2, followed by two in-service days for teachers. Thursday, Sept. 5, is Rosh Hashanah.
• After no days off in October, schools would be open to students only nine days from Nov. 4-29. Thanksgiving falls the latest day possible (Nov. 28) with the next day a holiday, too.
• Schools would reopen following New Year’s on Thursday, Jan. 2.
• From Jan. 2 to April 11, only two days off are scheduled, Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Jan. 20 and Presidents’ Day, Feb. 17. They are Mondays.
• There is no half-day of classes on Prom Day.
• The last day of school is a half-day on June 18, with high school graduation scheduled for Thursday, June 19.

