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Chester County Schools plans weekly common planning time; board raises concerns about elementary logistics and food waste
Summary
Director Kilzer updated the board on the 2025–26 calendar and a proposal to use 2.5 administrative days to create weekly common planning time for teachers. Board members questioned how the plan would affect elementary drop-off, supervision and support-staff capacity; the board also discussed recent food-service surveys and waste.
Director Kilzer briefed the Chester County Board of Education on a proposal tied to the 2025–26 school calendar to create routine common planning time for teachers by using administrative days and weekly late starts.
Kilzer said the district's staff contracts use a 200-day schedule while students attend 180 days. He said the district is proposing to use about 2.5 administrative days (roughly 15 hours) to provide common planning time distributed across 30 weeks of the school year, beginning about the third week of school. "The recommendation from those national leaders that we have been in conversation with…
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