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  2. Year-round school in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Year-round school is the practice of having students attend school without the traditional summer vacation, which is believed to have been made necessary by agricultural practices in the past, the agrarian school calendar consisted of a short winter and a short summer could help with planting in the spring and harvest in the fall. In cities ...

  3. Digital calendar - Wikipedia

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    A digital calendar is a collaborative or personal time management software with a calendar that can be used to keep track of planned events. The calendar can also contain an appointment book, address book or contact list. Common features of digital calendars are that users can: Enter their own events. Change the visibility (whether events ...

  4. Working time - Wikipedia

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    Public servants work 40 hours per week. Lunch breaks are one hour and are not usually counted as work. A typical work schedule is 8:00 or 9:00–12:00, 13:00–18:00. In larger cities, workers eat lunch on or near their work site, while some workers in smaller cities may go home for lunch.

  5. Critical chain project management - Wikipedia

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    The CCPM literature contrasts this with "traditional" project management that monitors task start and completion dates. CCPM encourages people to move as quickly as possible, regardless of dates. Because task duration has been planned at the 50% probability duration, there is pressure on resources to complete critical chain tasks as quickly as ...

  6. Los Angeles Unified School District - Wikipedia

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    The school district's budget for the 2021–2022 school year was $10.7 billion, increasing to $12.6 billion for the 2022–2023 school year. [ 2 ] The school district's jurisdiction area consists of almost all of the city of Los Angeles and all or portions of several adjoining cities and unincorporated areas in southwestern Los Angeles County ...

  7. Academic quarter (year division) - Wikipedia

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    Harper decided to keep the school in session year-round and divide it into four terms instead of the then-traditional two. [ 4 ] Of the four traditional academic calendars (semester, quarter, trimester, and 4-1-4 ), the semester calendar is used the most widely, at over 60% of U.S. higher learning institutions , with fewer than 20% using the ...

  8. Daylight saving time - Wikipedia

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    Daylight saving time (DST), also referred to as daylight saving(s), daylight savings time, daylight time (United States and Canada), or summer time (United Kingdom, European Union, and others), is the practice of advancing clocks to make better use of the longer daylight available during summer so that darkness falls at a later clock time.

  9. Permanent time observation in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Contents. Permanent time observation in the United States. Establishing either permanent standard or daylight saving time (DST) eliminates the practice of semi-annual clock changes, specifically the advancement of clocks by one hour from standard time to DST on the second Sunday in March (commonly called " spring forward") and the retraction of ...