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Board hears plan to add 10 minutes to school day to align high school schedules for CTE center and provide teacher time
Summary
District staff proposed adding 10 minutes to daily schedules to align comprehensive high schools for shared Career and Technical Education programming, create roughly four days of teacher time and add calendar flexibility; the board asked staff to seek principal and teacher input before any calendar amendment.
Ms. Leifer, a College Station ISD staff member, presented a proposal to add 10 minutes to the official instructional day and explained how the district would use the extra time to align schedules across the comprehensive high schools and support the Phase 2 CTE center.
Ms. Leifer told the board that the Texas Education Agency requires a minimum of 420 instructional minutes per day and that the district currently schedules more than the minimum; adding 10 minutes would raise the district's daily minutes and provide the equivalent of approximately 3.9 extra days over the school year. The presentation described two options for…
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