Events, Holidays, and Observances

Some of the following resources may support required instruction, but not everything listed is required instruction. See Florida State Statute 1003.42, Required instruction, for more information on required instruction.

• American Founders' Month & Celebrate Freedom Week (September)

• United States Constitution Day (September 17)

• Labor Day (First Monday of September)

• Patriots Day and 9/11 Commemoration (September 11)

• Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15 to October 15)

• Veterans Day (November 11)

• Holocaust Education Week (November)

• Thanksgiving Day (fourth Thursday of November)

• Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day (December 7)

• Bill of Rights Day (December 15)

• Martin Luther King Day (January 16, 2018)

• African American History Month (February)

• Women's History Month (March)

• Medal of Honor Day (March 25)

• Pascua Florida Day (April)

• Day of Remembrance (May 2, 2019)

• Armed Forces Week (begins on the second Saturday of May)

• Memorial Day (Last Monday of May)

• D-Day (June 6)

• Independence Day (July 4)