The Westport Board of Education has approved a vacation schedule for the 1967-68 school year which will include the Jewish New Year and the Day of Atonement as formal school holidays.
The board said the decision to include Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur among the school year holidays stemmed from the fact “of the large Jewish population of Westport which caused 20 percent absenteeism on those two holidays anyway.”
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