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Board adopts 2025‑26 calendar, approves inclement‑weather makeup plan and added minutes
Summary
After storms erased instructional time, district will add short minutes across the day beginning March 24, designate an inclement‑weather makeup day and adopt the 2025‑26 district calendar with added instructional minutes and more mid‑year pauses; the board approved the calendar 7‑0.
The Lawrence Board of Education voted March 10 to adopt the 2025‑26 district calendar and approved a plan to make up instructional time lost to winter weather.
Superintendent Janice K. Swift described the makeup plan the district developed with teachers and staff. "Beginning Monday, March 24 after our spring break, we will be adding 15 minutes ... Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday ..." she said, and added that principals will distribute exact dismissal times. Swift said the minutes will be added during instruction (not at lunch) and not concentrated only in a final period. She also said the district will add 25 minutes at the end of Wednesdays…
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