At the August 23, 2010 meeting of the Hall County Board of Education, Superintendent Will Schofield asked the Board to consider adding February 18, 2010, back into the school calendar as an instructional day.  Currently, the day is one of eight that had been approved in the 2010-11 school calendar as a furlough day.

The $26 billion jobs bill pushed through Congress on Aug. 10 will send about $550 million to Georgia and almost $5 million to Hall County Schools if all works according to plan.

“We’ve said from day one that we’d like to protect instructional time, and although we’re not in a position to recommend adding the day back in yet, we need to go ahead and inform people who may begin to make plans for that weekend,” Schofield told the board Monday night. “It’ll be a day with pay for teachers and a day of instruction for students, so I did want to run this by you about whether we should put this time back into the calendar.”

Superintendent Schofield said a final recommendation would come in the near future once the school system receives final clarification as to how this special funding will be distributed.