In 2004, the General Assembly passed the controversial school calendar law, which prevents schools from starting the year before August 25 and ending after June 10. In short, the coastal tourism lobby beat out education in this bill. Now comes this Mebane Enterprise story, indicating the Alamance County school board will push to have the law repealed. Here’s what school board chairman Tom Manning said, according to the story:

Manning also said that the school board was opposed to the calendar change in 2004 because of the disruption it created in the first semester and that it tied school official’s hands in scheduling school days, especially snow days.

He also said that many practical benefits as well as academic ones, such as summer jobs, came from the kind of calendar that Cummings will have next year.

Manning also said that many people believe that the 2004 state law benefited tourism more than education.