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School committee approves 2025–26 calendar after debate on professional development timing
Summary
Canton Public Schools approved the 2025–26 calendar 5–0. The board and administration emphasized the value of midweek professional-development days, described department- and building-level uses of early-release PD, and promised clearer family communications about start dates and notification sign-ups.
The Canton School Committee voted unanimously on Feb. 6 to approve the 2025–26 school calendar. Administration and committee members used the discussion to explain why several early-release and professional-development (PD) days are scheduled midweek and how the district plans to communicate details to families.
Superintendent Follin told the committee the calendar’s start and end dates are set and explained broader considerations: “We wanted to make sure it was done. It kept everyone safe,” he said in an earlier remark about inclement-weather scheduling. On the calendar specifics, the superintendent said the district will publish an updated calendar and that students in grades 1–12 will start on Tuesday after Labor Day (Sept. 2), with pre-K and kindergarten returning on…
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