School Board of the City of Virginia Beach
Policy 4-88

PERSONNEL

Holidays

Unless otherwise designated in the school calendar as instructional days or used as inclement weather make up days, the following days shall be observed as holidays for all twelve-month employees:

• Independence Day

• Labor Day

• Veterans Day

• Thanksgiving Day

• Day following Thanksgiving Day

• Christmas Eve Day

• Christmas Day

• New Year's Day

• Martin Luther King Day

• Presidents' Day

• Spring Holidays (two days)

• Memorial Day

When a paid holiday falls on a Saturday or Sunday, the observed federal and/or state holiday may be observed.

The superintendent shall have the authority to designate a holiday, within the same calendar year, for twelve-month employees when a holiday (listed above) is lost due to make up days because of inclement weather.

On all other work days not listed above, the individual schools and the school board office will be open for regular office hours.

Legal Reference:

Code of Va., § 2.1-21. Legal holidays.

 

Adopted by School Board: July 13, 1993 (Effective August 14, 1993)
Amended by School Board: May 17, 1994
Amended by School Board: May 16, 2000