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Board discusses 2026-27 school-calendar priorities; members favor two-week winter break, Veterans Day off and a full spring break
Summary
Charles County school staff briefed the board on the calendar process for 2026-27. Board members expressed preferences for preserving Veterans Day as a system holiday, keeping a two-week winter break, a full week spring break, and generally retaining the traditional late-August start rather than moving to an after-Labor-Day schedule.
Shelley Mackie, director of communications and media relations, briefed the Board of Education on the calendar-development process for the 2026-27 school year during the Feb. 11 meeting and solicited the board's priorities for the calendar committee.
Mackie said the district typically presents school calendars two years in advance and emphasized the constraints the committee must respect: the state requirement that students attend at least 180 days, negotiated teacher workdays (190 for certificated…
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