Crowds could be smaller this year partly because Mardi Gras is well before spring break for schools.
Included in the tax package is a $1 increase in the minimum wage, to $6.15 an hour, over two years, tax breaks for school construction bonds and about $31 billion in Medicare reimbursements to hospitals, nursing homes and health maintenance organizations.
The longest I remember looking forward to a break was for school holidays, anticipated for less than a term.
The whole idea of spring break for high school seniors can pose dilemmas for their parents, who are often torn between wanting their children to be safe and wanting them to have a memorable experience with their classmates and friends.
I would go along, camera in hand, hoping to take some good shots that I could perhaps sell, or that would help me make a break for art school or a career in photography.
Bethnal Green academy, which broke up for school holidays on Thursday, has said it barred access to social media from its classrooms and the radicalisation did not happen on its premises.
The migrant crisis has coincided with the half term break for British schools, seeing hundreds of families arriving for some early summer sun this week.
With Passover on April 6 and Easter on April 8, next week is spring break for many schools, and we're taking the week off, too.
A16 EDUCATION Tax Break for Private Schooling President Bush's education proposal contains a provision to let parents deduct up to $5,000 from their income to pay for the educational expenses of each child attending private elementary and secondary schools.
The tangle has been made worse by the fact that the air shutdown coincided with the last days of the Easter break for British schools, one of the busiest times of the year for airlines operating between Britain and European vacation destinations.
