Portal:Schools/Selected anniversaries/August

August

• In the United States, August is National Back to School Month.

• Filipino schools and theaters celebrate Filipino Language Month ("Buwan ng Wika") in August.

15th

• 1949 – Reconstruction of Rizal High School in the Philippines, the largest secondary school in the world according to the Guinness Book of World Records, is completed after the original building was destroyed from carpet-bombing by American Liberation Forces during World War II.

29th

• 2005 – Hurricane Katrina damages or destroys more than 100 of the 128 school buildings under the school district New Orleans Public Schools.