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School City of East Chicago board reviews 2025-26 calendar, proposes start-time changes to meet state instructional-hour rules
Summary
Trustees discussed a proposed 2025-26 school calendar that adds monthly virtual professional development/e-learning days, new teacher orientation and mentorship days, and earlier start times for Central High School and Block Junior High to meet updated Indiana instructional-hour requirements.
The School City of East Chicago Board of Trustees on Monday reviewed a proposed calendar for the 2025-26 school year that would add monthly virtual professional development/e-learning days, expand new-teacher orientation and mentorship time, and change start times at two secondary schools to meet state instructional-hour requirements.
Superintendent Dr. Steven Bonet introduced the calendar; Assistant Superintendent Dr. Yanders and Miss Gutierrez presented highlights. Miss Gutierrez said the district ‘‘met with the members of the union calendar committee composed of administrators, teachers, as well as the union’’ while developing the draft and that the 2025-26 calendar is “pretty much in alignment” with the current year’s schedule. She…
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