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School board approves adjusted 2025–26 calendar after public complaint about short notice
Summary
The Mankato Public School District board voted to adopt a revised 2025–26 academic calendar that shifts the school year earlier to allow an extended summer 2026 construction window after a parent criticized the district’s notification timeline.
The Mankato Public School District school board approved a revised 2025–26 school calendar that moves the start of classes to the week before Labor Day and ends the school year by May 21, 2026. The board said the change is intended to create a “super summer” in 2026 to allow multiple school construction and indoor-air-quality projects to be completed without students and staff on campus.
The vote followed public comment from Erin Gensil of Madison Lake, who told the board the district’s late notice about the calendar changes imposed hardship on families. “The proposed changes ... are the perfect example of lack of preparedness on your end does not create an emergency on mine,” Gensil said, adding that her daughter’s choir, orchestra and…
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