| The Joplin School Board voted to approve a new calendar for the 2020/1 school year. In the past several months, the state legislature made a law that schools would have to start school later in August in order to capitalize on as much of summer as possible in Missouri's tourism industry. Then, with the COVID-19 cancellation of the spring quarter and the possibility (probability?) of another spike in cases, the legislature waived that requirement in the upcoming year. Joplin Schools will attempt to take advantage of that change. |  |
This puts our first day of school on Thursday, August 13, rather than the previous start date which was 11 days later, and gets us three solid weeks before our first break on Labor Day.
