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Board reviews proposed 2025–26 calendar and discusses a unified legislative platform
Summary
Board reviewed a staff-recommended 2025–26 calendar (staff ballot: 776 votes, 63% for the presented option) and discussed a draft legislative platform intended to guide district messaging to state legislators; the board asked staff to return with edits and finalize both items in January.
District staff presented a proposed 2025–26 school calendar and a draft legislative platform during the December meeting.
Andrew Young summarized calendar-development work with the certified and classified PPC and said the district solicited staff input. He said an early question received 691 responses and that 85.5% indicated support for continuing the alternative calendar approach; a later staff ballot recorded 776 votes with 63% selecting the option now before the board. The proposed calendar starts earlier (around Aug. 12) and adds a fall break, with two variations on which days the break would fall; board members discussed impacts such as consecutive four-day weeks and the need for classified-staff flexibility. The board deferred final approval, with a vote expected next month.
Dr. Mulford introduced a draft legislative platform intended to give the district a consistent message for elected officials. The draft organizes beliefs and specific 'we support' and 'we oppose' statements; staff highlighted three board-member–suggested additions (career and technical education/workforce development, childhood literacy interventions, and civic-engagement support). Board members suggested clarifying language (for example, emphasizing workforce development rather than naming only CTE) and discussed adding an explicit position opposing partisan school-board elections. Dr. Mulford said the draft emphasizes testing a litmus for proposals (for example, opposing revenue diversion to private entities unless those entities meet equivalent standards for admissions and academic performance).
Board members thanked staff for outreach and asked staff to make the suggested edits and return the calendar and legislative platform for final action in January.
