Whether year-round school or weeklong Thanksgiving break, school calendars provoke passion. Now there's debate and pending legal action over the length of winter break.

The biggest changes are to the optional winter break school days, which would shift to a full week before the start of the second semester. District officials presented the draft calendars to a ...

Los Angeles Unified has proposed a three-year school calendar that maintains the district’s mid-August start and three-week winter break. What’s the same: Every year includes the state ...

Calendars across the Northern Hemisphere say winter will begin on Dec. 21, but for meteorologists, the start of the season happens three weeks earlier on Dec. 1. The reason behind the discrepancy ...

You may not ski, snowboard, or ice skate, or enjoy a winter walk in the woods, but it’s here and rather than swim upstream for the next three months, try to embrace all it has to offer. It can ...