I live in NY. My kids go to public school but they have a number of friends in private schools, downstate, upstate. The schedules are basically the same. The requirements may be written that way but I have never heard of any private school getting out more than a month early. We start the week of Labor Day and finals begin the week of June 11th. The OP starts in Early September and finals started last week? That's a 6 week difference.
I have no idea where Common Core fits into the number of school days. The number of days in public schools is the same now as it was before common core.
I live in NY also (NYC to be exact). There is no longer a set date for children to attend lower grades anymore and I'll admit it can be confusing. When we took DGD to Disney during a whatever they call it holiday during the first week of April at least 4 of her similar aged friends were on different school schedules.
Parochial, charter, private and public schools ALL had different holiday calendars. There are even different schedules between the same charter schools in different boroughs. It amazed me but exists.
Clueless about common core or stem requirements since DGD's school doesn't follow it nor is it required; her school exceeds it in certain subjects.
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