Judge sides with NC tourism businesses that coastal county can’t start school Aug. 13
A county wanted to begin the fall semester two weeks earlier than the state allows — in the middle of the August beach season. A judge has ruled that the Carteret County school board in North Carolina, a popular coastal tourism area, cannot start school on August 13, two weeks earlier than allowed under state law. The school board had adopted a calendar for the 2024-25 school year that starts classes Aug. 13, a move that three local businesses sued the school system for challenging the law. A Superior Court Judge William D. Wolfe has ruled the calendar void, stating that it violates state law by allowing students to take fall semester exams before winter break and violates the state Constitution. The district had argued that its calendar helps students by allowing them to take winter exams before the winter break.
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A judge is blocking a popular North Carolina tourism area from defying the state’s school calendar law.
The Carteret County school board had adopted a calendar for the 2024-25 school year that starts classes Aug. 13 — two weeks earlier than allowed under state law. On Wednesday, Superior Court Judge William D. Wolfe issued an order declaring the calendar to be void.
“We are pleased with the Court’s ruling,” Mitchell Armbruster, an attorney for three local businesses who sued the school system, said in a statement. “All we asked for in this case was that the school district be required to follow the law, a law which the school board openly admitted they were violating.
“We shouldn’t be teaching our children that it is OK to violate the law.”
Carteret County includes popular coastal tourism spots such as Atlantic Beach, Emerald Isle and Morehead City.
The school district had argued that its calendar helps students by letting them take fall semester exams before winter break. School officials also argued that the calendar law violated the state Constitution.
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