{"id":8354,"date":"2019-12-05T14:38:49","date_gmt":"2019-12-05T14:38:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/world\/8354-students-in-maryland-school-system-to-be-off-on-muslim-holiday-and-lunar-new-year\/"},"modified":"2019-12-05T14:38:49","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T14:38:49","slug":"students-in-maryland-school-system-to-be-off-on-muslim-holiday-and-lunar-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/world\/8354-students-in-maryland-school-system-to-be-off-on-muslim-holiday-and-lunar-new-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Students in Maryland school system to be off on Muslim holiday \u2014 and Lunar New Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12.16px;\">Elected officials in the Washington suburbs adopted an academic calendar for next school year that gives students a day off on the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr, a move that followed the<\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.16px;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Elected officials in the Washington suburbs adopted an academic calendar for next school year that gives students a day off on the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr, a move that followed the resolution of a possible conflict with Advanced Placement testing.<\/p>\n<p>The calendar for 2020-2021 in Montgomery County, passed Tuesday by the county school board, designates May 13 as a teacher professional day so that students can be out of classes for the Islamic holy day.<\/p>\n<p>Helping to clear the way was a decision by the College Board to create extra testing options: Advanced Placement tests planned for May 13 would be given a second time, on May 18, to support students observing the holiday, College Board officials said in November as the issue flared.<\/p>\n<p>At recent school board meetings, Muslim parents and students had pressed for the day off, citing the holiday\u2019s importance and issues of fairness.<\/p>\n<p>Students in Montgomery \u2014 home to Maryland&#8217;s largest school system, with an enrollment of more than 165,000 \u2014 are off for two Jewish holidays and a string of days around Christmas and Easter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a big victory for our students,\u201d said Samira Hussein, a longtime advocate on the issue. \u201cThey will feel accepted and acknowledged by their teachers, their Board of Education, and their superintendent.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elected officials in the Washington suburbs adopted an academic calendar for next school year that gives students a day off on the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr, a move that followed the Elected officials in the Washington suburbs adopted an academic calendar for next school year that gives students a day off on the Muslim &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":20138,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.3 - 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