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Board debates options to recover snow‑day instructional time; adopts revised 2024‑25 calendar
Summary
After discussion of a superintendent‑led plan that included 14 extra minutes of instructional time per day and targeted building plans, the Klamath County School District board voted to adopt a revised 2024‑25 calendar to recapture lost instructional time; the superintendent had solicited association input beforehand.
Superintendent Glenn Schumiak told the board the district lost instructional time to winter storms and had worked with association leadership on alternatives to adding makeup days at the end of the school year. “Rather than talking about compliance and a lot of other things, what I wanted to do is change the conversation and think about how much instruction was lost and how much can we recover,” Schumiak said.
Why it matters: Board members debated two approaches: adding short amounts of time each regular school day (a plan that would add 14 minutes per day districtwide) versus adding full makeup days to the end of the school year. The superintendent said association…
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