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Board approves 2025'26 school calendar with shorter student year and 10-minute longer days
Summary
The School Board approved a 2025'26 calendar that reduces student contact days from 179 to 175, adds 10 minutes to each school day, designates Martin Luther King Jr. Day as a holiday and sets the student year to end June 5, 2026; board members asked how additional inclement days would be handled.
The Fort Atkinson Board of Education on Thursday approved the district's 2025'26 school calendar, trimming student contact days to 175 from the current 179, adding 10 minutes to each school day and establishing Friday, June 5, 2026, as the tentative last day of classes for students.
Administration told the board the 10 extra minutes would be districtwide and that specific timing would be set to accommodate bus schedules; the…
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