Mount Lebanon superintendent presents 2025–26 calendar survey results and recommends proposed calendar

Superintendent Dr. David Friese presented results of a public and staff survey on the proposed 2025–26 school calendar at the Jan. 13 Mount Lebanon Board of School Directors meeting and said administration recommends adopting the draft calendar as presented.

Friese reviewed the statutory and contractual constraints that guide calendar creation. He cited Act 56, which permits a school term consisting of either 180 days or a required number of instructional hours (990 hours at the secondary level, 900 at elementary, 450 for half‑day kindergarten). He also noted flexible instruction days may be used only for unscheduled emergency situations (unsafe buildings due to weather, law‑enforcement emergency or similar circumstances) and cannot be pre‑scheduled for non‑emergency uses such…