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Board reviews calendar options after NTI and missed days; decision pending legislative action
Summary
With all 10 NTI days used and several makeup days already taken, district staff presented calendar scenarios to preserve teacher workdays or move a March teacher‑work day to a student attendance day; board will consider options pending pending legislation from Frankfort.
Oldham County Schools officials presented the board with three calendar scenarios Monday after the district exhausted all 10 NTI (nontraditional instruction) days and used two traditional makeup days for weather and illness.
Mister Deaves outlined options: keep the approved calendar; remove the March 14 teacher work day and make it a student attendance day (which would shift the last student day and require staff to work additional days after students leave); or keep March 14 as a teacher work day and shift other days so staff finish earlier in the spring. District leaders said any change would require board approval, could affect employees such as bus drivers and food‑service staff who work different contracts, and would require manual HR adjustments for staff who had banked workdays.
Superintendent Doctor Radford told the board lawmakers in Frankfort were considering a bill that, in its current form, could forgive two missed traditional snow days — a change that would reduce the need to alter the district calendar. Radford cautioned the bill had not been approved and said the district needed time to see whether the legislature acts before the board must make a decision.
Board members asked whether principals and teachers had been consulted; district leaders said principals had been contacted and could adapt plans locally, but they had not surveyed all teachers and could do so if the board preferred. Board members discussed preferences, including concerns about requiring staff to return after the final student day versus holding the teacher work day on March 14, with some principals indicating a March workday would be preferable to adding late‑June work days.
Officials said the board would need to decide by March 7 if it planned to change the March 14 date and that any board choice would be communicated to families once finalized.
