Contact: Tammy Lane • First Posted: Thursday, December 17, 2009

Students will get a five-day weekend next October now that the Fayette County Board of Education has revised the district’s 2010-2011 instructional calendar.

School officials opted to shift a scheduled flexible staff development day and a flexible records/conference day to create the Oct. 6-8 fall break in anticipation of extensive traffic congestion at the World Equestrian Games’ closing ceremonies, the opening of fall races at Keeneland and a University of Kentucky home football game.

This change does not affect the first or last days of school; FCPS students will start classes on Wednesday, Aug. 11, as previously approved.

• 2010-2011 instructional calendar