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Key Dates for 2017-18 School Calendars
June 1, 2017
Here are some special days you might want to note on your 2017-18 school calendar
or take into consideration as you plan programs and events for the upcoming school
year.
August 2017
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1-31 Children’s Eye Health and Safety Month
6 Bombing of Hiroshima Anniversary
13 Texas Parents Day
14 VJ Day
15 Assumption
26 Women's Equality Day
27 Lyndon B. Johnson's Birthday
September 2017
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1-30 Library Card Sign-Up Month
1 Eid al-Adha
3 Treaty of Paris Anniversary
4 Richard Wright’s Birthday
5 First Continental Congress Assembly
4 Labor Day
6 Marie Zakrzewska’s Birthday
8 International Literacy Day
10 World Suicide Prevention Day
10 Grandparents’ Day
10-16 National Arts in Education Week
11 Patriot Day
11 Texas First Responders Day
15-Oct. 15 Hispanic Heritage Month
16 Mayflower Day
16 Mexican Independence Day
16 Texian Navy Day
17 Citizenship Day
17 Constitution Day
17-23 Constitution Week
20 Dr. Hector P. Garcia Day
21 International Day of Peace
21-22 Rosh Hashanah
22 First Day of Autumn
24 School Desegregation Order Enforced
29 American Indian Heritage Day
30 Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement)
30 Racial Integration of American Universities Enforced
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1-31 Bully Prevention Month
1-31 Computer Learning Month
1-31 Crime Prevention Month
1-31 Czech Heritage Month
1-31 Italian American Heritage and Culture Month
1-31 Persons with Disabilities History & Awareness Month
1-31 Polish American Heritage Month
1-31 Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF Month
1-7 Monarch Butterfly Week
2 Mahatma Gandhi’s Birthday/International Day of Nonviolence
2 National Custodial Workers Day
2 Child Health Day
4 International Walk to School Day
5-11 Sukkot (Feast of Tabernacles)
6 German American Heritage Day
8 The “Great Chicago Fire” Anniversary
8-14 Fire Prevention Week
8-14 National Metric Week
9 Anniversary of Benjamin Banneker’s Death
9 Columbus Day/Discoverers’ Day
9-13 National School Lunch Week
11 General Casimir Pulaski Memorial Day
12 Shmini Atzeret
13 Simchat Torah
15-21 National Character Counts Week
15-21 National Teen Driver Safety Week
16 National Boss' Day
16 World Food Day
16-20 National School Bus Safety Week
20 John Dewey’s Birthday
20-21 Birth of the Báb
23-31 Red Ribbon Week
24 United Nations Day
28 Make a Difference Day
31 Halloween
November 2017
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1-30 National Native American Heritage Month
1 All Saints Day
1-2 Dia de los Muertos
2 All Souls' Day
3 Father of Texas Day
3 Texas Arbor Day
5 Daylight Savings Time Ends
7 Marie Curie’s Birthday
7 Election Day
11 Veterans Day (Armistice Day)
12 Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s Birthday
12-18 Get Smart about Antibiotics Week
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13-17 American Education Week
15 Education Support Professionals Day
16 National Parental Involvement Day
17 Substitute Educators Day
19 Gettysburg Address Anniversary
19-25 National Family Week
20 Anniversary of the Mexican Revolution
23 Thanksgiving Day
30 Mark Twain’s Birthday
December 2017
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1 World AIDS Day
5 Beginning of the Montgomery Bus Boycott
7 Pearl Harbor Day
8 Feast of the Immaculate Conception
10 Human Rights Day
13-20 Hanukkah (Festival of Lights)
16 Boston Tea Party Anniversary
17 Anniversary of the Wright Brothers’ Flight
21 First Day of Winter
25 Christmas
25 Clara Barton’s Birthday
26-Jan. 1 Kwanzaa
29 Wounded Knee Massacre Anniversary
31 New Year’s Eve
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1-31 Human Trafficking Prevention Month
1-31 Texas School Board Recognition Month
1 Emancipation Proclamation Anniversary
1 New Year’s Day
1 Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God
6 Epiphany
6 Sam Rayburn Day
7 Christmas Day (Orthodox)
15 Martin Luther King Jr.’s Birthday Observance
19 Confederate Heros Day
21 World Religion Day
23 First Native American U.S. Senator
28 Christa McAuliffe Day
February 2018
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1-28 Career & Technology Education Month
1-28 National African American History Month
1-28 National Children’s Dental Health Month
1 National Freedom Day
2 Groundhog Day
5 Anniversary of Mexican Constitution
5-9 National School Counseling Week
11 Thomas Edison’s Birthday
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12 Abraham Lincoln’s Birthday
13 Mardi Gras
14 Ash Wednesday
14 Frederick Douglass Day
14 St. Valentine’s Day
14-March 29 Lent
15 Susan B. Anthony’s Birthday
16 Chinese New Year
17 National PTA Founders Day
17-24 National Future Farmers of America Week
19 Iwo Jima Day
19 Presidents’ Day
19 State of Texas Anniversary Remembrance (STAR) Day
22 George Washington’s Birthday
23 W.E.B. DuBois’s Birthday
March 2018
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1-31 American Red Cross Month
1-31 Irish American Heritage Month
1-31 Music in Our Schools Month
1-31 National Middle Level Education Month
1-31 National Nutrition Month
1-31 Social Work Month
1-31 Texas History Month
1-31 Women’s History Month
1-31 Youth Art Month
1 Korean Independence Movement Day
1 Peace Corps Anniversary
1 Purium
2 NEA’s Read Across America/Dr. Seuss' Birthday
2 Texas Independence Day
4 First Woman to Serve in Congress
4-10 National Foreign Language Week
5-9 National School Breakfast Week
8 International Women’s Day
10 Anniversary of Harriet Tubman’s Death
11 Daylight Saving Time Begins
11-17 Girl Scout Week
14 Albert Einstein’s Birthday
15 Absolutely Incredible Kid Day®
16 First Black Newspaper in U.S. Published
17 Camp Fire USA Birthday
17 St. Patrick’s Day
18-24 National Agriculture Week
18-24 National Poison Prevention Week
20 First Day of Spring
20 National Agriculture Day
21 Bahá’í New Year’s Day (Naw-Rúz)
21 International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
22 World Water Day
23 Anniversary of Patrick Henry’s Speech
29 Vietnam Veterans Day
March 30 Good Friday
March 31 Cesar Chavez Day
March 31–April 7 Passover (Pesach)
April 2018
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1-30 Child Safety Month
1-30 National Autism Awareness Month
1-30 National Poetry Month
1 April Fools’ Day
1 Easter
2 International Children’s Book Day
6 Founding of the Mormon Church
7 World Health Day
8-14 National Library Week
10 National Library Workers Day
12 Anniversary of the First Man in Space
16-20 Public School Volunteer Week
21 Great American Cleanup
21 San Jacinto Day
22 Earth Day
25 Administrative Professionals' Day
27 Arbor Day
30-May 6 National Children’s Book Week
May 2018
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1-31 Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month
1-31 Better Hearing and Speech Month
1-31 National Physical Fitness and Sports Month
1-31 National Sight-Saving Month
1-31 Preservation Month
1 Law Day
1 Loyalty Day
1-7 National Physical Education and Sports Week
3 World Press Freedom Day
4 Horace Mann’s Birthday
4 School Lunch Hero Day
5 Anniversary of the First American Man in Space
5 Cinco de Mayo
6-12 Be Kind to Animals Week
6-12 National Music Week
7-11 Teacher Appreciation Week
8 National Teacher Appreciation Day
8 VE Day
8 World Red Cross Day
9 National School Nurse Day
9 Public School Paraprofessional Day
9 Willie Velasquez Day
10 Anniversary of the Completion of the Transcontinental Railroad
10 Ascension
13 Mother’s Day
13-19 Food Allergy Awareness Week
May
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16 First Day of Ramadan
17 Anniversary of School Desegregation Ruling
20 Armed Forces Day
20 Pentecost
20-21 Lindbergh Flight Anniversary
20-21 Shavuot (Festival of Weeks)
20-26 National Educational Bosses’ Week
21 Victoria Day
22 International Day for Biological Diversity
25 Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Birthday
28 Memorial Day
31 World No Tobacco Day
June 2018
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1-30 Caribbean American Heritage Month
1-30 Fireworks Safety Month
1-30 Great Outdoors Month
1-30 Internet Safety Month
3 Jefferson Davis’s Birthday
5 World Environment Day
6 Anniversary of first Little League baseball game ever played
10 Race Unity Day
12 Anne Frank’s Birthday
14 Flag Day
15 Anniversary of Benjamin Franklin’s Kite Experiment
15 Eid al-Fitr
15 Magna Carta Day
16 Anniversary of the First Woman in Space
16 International Day of the African Child
17 Father’s Day
18 Anniversary of the First American Woman in Space
19 Juneteenth – Emancipation Day
21 First Day of Summer
27 Helen Keller’s Birthday
July 2018
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1-31 Buffalo Soldiers Heritage Month
1 Canada Day
2 Disappearance of Amelia Earhart
4 Independence Day
11 E.B. White’s Birthday
14 Bastille Day
15 Apollo-Soyuz Joint Space Project Anniversary
18 Nelson Mandela Day
19 Anniversary of the Seneca Falls Convention
20 First Humans on the Moon
22 Tish’a B’Av (The Ninth of Av)
27 José Celso Barbosa’s Birthday
28 National Day of the Cowboy
30 International Day of Friendship