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Liberty Hill ISD board hears split community feedback on 2025–26 calendar, staff favor shorter student year
Summary
After a district survey of 2,481 respondents showed stronger overall support for a traditional calendar but strong staff support for an alternate model, trustees directed further study of childcare, instructional minutes and operational impacts before adopting a 2025–26 calendar.
The Liberty Hill ISD Board of Trustees on Dec. 16 reviewed results of a districtwide survey that presented two 2025–26 instructional-calendar options and heard extended debate over whether to adopt a more traditional calendar or a modified schedule that would give teachers recurring student‑free workdays.
District chief of schools Travis Motol said the survey drew 2,481 total responses — more than 1,600 from parents and 824 from staff — and 834 commenters. He told trustees that both calendar A and calendar B meet state minimum requirements for instructional minutes (75,600) and contract days (187) but organize those minutes differently.
"Both of them meet the minimum instructional requirements of 75,600 and 187, teacher and campus days," Motol said. He described calendar A as the district's more traditional pattern and calendar B as a more innovative model that concentrates student holidays on specific Mondays…
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