Policy: 5410
Personnel
Holidays
Per RCW 1.16.050, the following are state legal holidays. The district will observe the following school holidays and will not operate on these days:
1. Sunday;
2. New Years’ Day (January l);
3. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day (third Monday in January) celebrated as the anniversary of the birth of Martin Luther King, Jr.;
4. President’s Day (third Monday in February) and celebrated as the anniversary of the births of Abraham Lincoln and George Washington;
5. Memorial Day (last Monday in May);
6. Juneteenth Day (June 19) recognized as Juneteenth, a day of remembrance for the day the African slaves learned of their freedom;
7. Independence Day (July 4) the anniversary of the Declaration of Independence;
8. Labor Day (first Monday in September); 9. Veteran’s Day (November 11);
10. Thanksgiving Day (fourth Thursday in November);
11. The day after Thanksgiving the Friday immediately following the fourth Thursday in November, to be known as Native American Heritage Day; and
12. Christmas Day (December 25).
Whenever any legal holiday, other than a Sunday, falls on Sunday, the following Monday will be a legal holiday, and whenever any legal holiday falls on a Saturday, the preceding Friday will be a legal holiday.
Cross References: 2336 - Required Observances (Veterans Day, Constitution Day, Temperance and Good Citizenship Day, Disability History Month)
Legal References:
RCW 1.16.050 Legal holidays and legislatively recognized
RCW 28A.150.050 School holidays
Management Resources: 2021 - December Issue Revised: 6/8/22 Adopted: 7/6/22