A year-round calendar makes sense, and everything should be done to make it happen.

Up until the 2008-09 school year, the school followed a year-round calendar.

The year-round calendar has been adopted in hundreds of school districts in 39 states.

Without building a single classroom, a school can expand its capacity a third or more by switching to a year-round calendar.

She now draws from a pool of 40 musicians for the year-round calendar of performances.

As of 2010 it follows a traditional year-round calendar.

A similar program has been used since the early 1980's in Los Angeles, where 40 percent of the public schools now use a year-round calendar.

It put more than a third of the elementary schools on the year-round calendar starting in July 2007.

The switch to a year-round calendar in many schools has led to some unanticipated needs.

Plans to bring the school to a traditional calendar in 2009, rather than the "year-round" calendar, have surfaced recently.