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Conway board adopts staff‑preferred school calendar after 69% staff vote
Summary
After the district’s staff vote favored option 1 (about 69%), the board approved the school calendar that starts on a Monday and ends before Memorial Day, noting both options meet the state minimum instruction requirement of 1,068 hours.
The Conway School District board approved the calendar option that district staff selected. Ginger Campbell, a member of the calendar committee, presented two calendar choices and explained the principal differences: option 1 begins the school year on a Monday and ends on a Friday, while option 2 would begin midweek and require returning after Memorial Day. Campbell said both options meet Arkansas’s minimum instruction requirement of 1,068 hours per year.
Campbell reported that the district-wide staff vote (licensed and classified employees) favored option 1 by roughly 69 percent, and the board moved, seconded, and approved that option by voice vote.
The board did not change instructional-minute calculations and indicated the calendar approved is the one staff recommended; no alternate schedule or additional adjustments were adopted at the meeting.
