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Board adopts revised 2025–26 school calendar, designating contingency give‑back day if snow days unused
Summary
Trustees approved an amended 2025–26 calendar after staff found a counting error and presented three options; the board accepted the middle option to add one instructional day and designate a contingency give‑back day (May 26) if snow days go unused, with a plan to finalize details at the July meeting.
The Locust Valley Board of Education voted Tuesday to adopt a revised 2025–26 district calendar after administrators identified a counting error in the originally approved calendar and presented three options for how to account for instructional days and snow‑day contingencies.
Why it matters: New York State requires school districts to meet a minimum instructional‑day threshold. The board and administration debated how to treat unused snow days and whether to switch to remote instruction after one or two closures.
What administrators presented: Ken, a district administrator, explained that the approved calendar inadvertently produced 181 instructional days (plus one built‑in snow day) instead of…
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