The Los Angeles Board of Education voted to revise the 1966-67 school calendar to permit some 100, 000 Jewish pupils and 3,000 Jewish teachers to observe the two days of the Jewish New Year without loss of school time or salaries.
The revision changes the opening date from September 12 to September 19. It followed lengthy efforts by Jewish teachers to obtain such a revision. Two of the teachers, Harold Dener and Louis Barak of San Fernando Valley, urged Los Angeles Jewry to express thanks to the board.
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