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Board adopts 2025-26 calendar; board reviews potential shift to full-day kindergarten and projected fiscal impact
Summary
The board approved the 2025-26 school calendar with a student start date of Aug. 27 and discussed a separate warrant article to change the district's articles of agreement to transition to tuition-free kindergarten; administrators presented a first-year net cost estimate.
The Timberlane Regional School District Board voted to adopt the 2025-26 school calendar, setting the student start date for Aug. 27, 2025. The two-calendar proposal presented previously (a pre-Labor Day start and a post-Labor Day start) differed by two instructional days; state law limits reductions in senior instructional days and that constraint produced identical tentative graduation dates for both calendar options.
Board members then considered a pending warrant article that would amend the Timberlane articles of agreement to extend the district's responsibility to kindergarten (i.e., change from grades 1-12 to K-12).…
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