Get Full Government Meeting Transcripts, Videos, & Alerts Forever!
Get email alerts on the School Calendars topic
No spam. Unsubscribe anytime.
Board tables 2026–27 and 2027–28 school calendars after teachers and trustees call for superintendent review
Summary
Trustees pulled the proposed 2026–27 and 2027–28 school calendars for further review and agreed to let the incoming superintendent examine them before final approval. Teachers and union leaders urged changes to staff development timing and the distribution of days off.
The Clark County School District Board of Trustees on April 10 voted to table proposed 2026–27 and 2027–28 school calendars so the new superintendent can review them, after multiple teachers and trustees raised concerns about staff development scheduling, long uninterrupted stretches of instruction and effects on staff pay.
Board staff and the calendar committee described the draft calendars as the product of a biennial committee made up of about two dozen principals and departmental representatives, with outreach to school organizational teams, Teaching and Learning, and the Superintendent Student Advisory Council. Brian Redmond, director in Human Resources, told trustees the committee considered many constraints, including state seat‑time requirements for semester lengths (89–91 days for Carnegie unit compliance) and the need to accommodate nine‑, ten‑ and eleven‑month employee schedules.
Teachers and union representatives urged changes. In public comment, a classroom teacher asked trustees to send the calendars back to the calendar committee for fixes, citing concerns that the first semester ends the Friday before winter break and that schools have no staff development day immediately before the first day of second semester. Vicky Bridal, president of NEA of Southern Nevada, told the board she had heard instances where trainees in a teacher preparation program had no appeal if a supervising administrator refused to sign a recommendation and warned the board to review program processes closely.
Trustees discussed the practical tradeoffs: full Thanksgiving weeks off would reduce pay days for nine‑month employees and risk shifting uncompensated time onto lower‑paid staff, calendar staff said. Trustees who represent educators said modest calendar changes — such as scheduling a staff development day on the first day back from winter break or ending school on a Thursday to give teachers Friday to check out — had strong support from teachers during briefings.
After discussion and public comment the board voted to table agenda items 2.07 and 2.08 (the two affected calendars) pending a future agenda that allows Superintendent‑designate Joan Ebert time to review them. Trustee Dominguez moved the motion to table the calendars; Trustee Cavazos seconded. The motion passed 7–0.
What the board said it will do next: district staff said they welcome the new superintendent's input and that postponing the vote will not violate state deadlines, because the 2026 and 2027 calendar approvals are not due until May of the corresponding prior year. Trustees requested district staff provide data on absenteeism around Thanksgiving and other calendar impacts for any further review.
Votes at a glance: Board motion to table calendar items 2.07 and 2.08 until Superintendent Ebert reviews them — approved 7–0.
(For provenance: calendar discussion began with the HR and calendar team overview and ended with the board motion to table the calendar items.)
