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Winston-Salem/Forsyth County board adopts modified 2026–27 calendar after public comments
Summary
After more than an hour of public comment and board debate about instructional time, student wellbeing and legal risk, the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County School Board rescinded its prior calendar decision and voted to adopt a modified 2026–27 school calendar while staff pursues waiver or exemption options.
Deanna Kaplan, board chair of the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools Board of Education, presided over a special meeting at which the board voted to rescind a prior calendar decision and adopt a modified 2026–27 academic calendar.
The action followed public comments from teachers, parents and community members who said the modified calendar better preserves instructional time and reduces harm to students and staff. Heather Woodward, an International Baccalaureate educator at Parkland Magnet High School, told the board that returning to the traditional calendar would cost IB students “two full weeks of instruction,” and that the additional time under the…
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