Lunar New Year has been listed as a day off on school calendars since 2015 with the exception of 2020, when it also fell on a Sunday, according to the Department of Education.

The lunar calendar, unlike the Gregorian calendar, uses the phases of the moon to delineate days, weeks and months of the year. A lunar month is the period of time from one new moon to the next ...

In recent years, three Massachusetts school districts have changed their school calendars to include Lunar New Year as a day off. In 2020, Brookline added Lunar New Year, followed by Hopkinton and ...

What is the history of Lunar New Year? The Chinese calendar uses a 60-year cycle known as the sexagenary ... Asian Americans made up 10.8% of the state's total population in 2020, up from 8.2% in ...

When Lunar New Year begins Saturday, initiating a new Year of the Dragon, some experts anticipate—or even hope for—another dragon-year rise in Chinese birth rates, however slight. “Dragon years are ...

In 2020, X-ray imaging ... “Towards the end of last year, a colleague pointed to me to data acquired by YouTuber Chris Budiselic, ... Given that a lunar calendar features 354 days, ...

Lunar New Year falls on Saturday, Feb. 10, in 2024. New York is the first state to declare Lunar New Year a public school holiday. It has been observed in New York City public schools since 2016.