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About 4 percent of public schools in the U.S. use a balanced calendar that operates year-round with a shorter summer break. [8] The modern school calendar has its roots in 19th-century school-reform movements seeking standardization between urban and rural areas. Up until the mid-19th century, most schools were open for a winter and summer term.
Christmas or Winter Break – Varies in length per school; usually starts on the third Saturday in December and ends a day or two after New Year's Day (sometimes the first Monday after New Year's Day), unless New Year's Day falls on a Sunday in which case the first Monday (January 2) is the official holiday and schools may not begin until ...
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Offered only in 2010, the Historical Merit Badge program, part of the Boy Scouts of America centennial, allowed Scouts to earn the discontinued Carpentry, Pathfinding, Signalling, and Tracking (originally called Stalking) merit badges.
Livermore Valley Charter School (LVCS): a K-8 public school [96] Livermore Valley Charter Preparatory (LVCP): a high school, opened in fall of 2010 Both schools were effectively shut down by the beginning of the 2018 school year amidst accusations of embezzlement, exchange student fraud, and the loss of their UC accreditation.
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[7] [8] [9] She competed in the 2008 Summer Olympics, where she was the youngest competitor in the women's 58-kg category. [10] In the 2016 Summer Olympics, Diaz won the silver medal in the women's 53-kg weight division, the first Filipino to win a medal in a non-boxing event since 1936 [11] and ending the Philippines' 20-year Olympic medal ...