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Board approves 2025 election order, school calendar and a package of waivers and nominations; limits major Downing project to safety work
Summary
The Lewisville ISD Board of Trustees approved a package of calendar, election, waiver and limited capital-authority items at its Feb. 18 meeting, adopting a 175-day (4x35-minute) student calendar and limiting a planned Downing Middle School lifecycle refresh to safety projects only.
The Lewisville ISD Board of Trustees approved a series of procedural and budget-related items at its Feb. 18 meeting, voting to set the May 3, 2025 trustee election, adopt a 4x35-minute school-day calendar for 2025–26 and approve several waivers and nominations tied to a Feb. 3 campus water-main incident.
The board voted 5-2 to adopt a calendar that sets student instructional minutes at 4 periods of 35 minutes per day (175 student days). Board members Dr. Lori Barker and Catherine Sells voted for a competing 4x45-minute calendar; the 4x35-minute calendar carried by majority vote.
In other formal actions the board approved: submitting a missed school day waiver and a low-attendance waiver to the Texas Education Agency for campus closures on Feb. 3; a resolution delegating authority to continue payroll for staff affected by temporary campus closures; three targeted improvement plans…
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