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Frenship ISD calendar committee presents two draft 2025–26 calendars and opens public survey

Frenship Board of Trustees

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Summary

The district's calendar committee released two draft 2025–26 calendars that share total instructional minutes but differ on whether Presidents Day is a student holiday; a public survey is open through the next day at noon to collect feedback before the committee meets to recommend a final calendar.

The Frenship ISD calendar committee presented two draft calendars for the 2025–26 school year and opened a district survey to gather staff, parent and student input.

Tiffany Taylor told the board both drafts contain the same number of student instructional minutes and staff days but differ in spring scheduling: Draft A designates Presidents Day as a staff development day only, while Draft B makes Presidents Day a student and staff holiday, which required shifting other days in the spring calendar. Taylor said both drafts align major breaks (Thanksgiving, winter and spring) with neighboring districts where possible.

The committee, a group of roughly 40 people representing all 16 campuses and central-office departments, narrowed three initial drafts to the two presented. The committee opened a survey after its first meeting; Taylor said the survey would close the next day at noon and that the committee would review results at its meeting the following day. If consensus is not reached, the committee planned a third meeting on Jan. 30 before making a recommendation to the board at its Feb. 17 meeting.

Taylor described outreach used to collect responses — website posts, Skyward messages, Remind messages, social media and the Tiger Tales newsletter — and noted the survey includes a separate section for students and for people who are both staff and parents to collect more detailed perspectives.