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Board approves 2026–27 school calendar; staff reports $1.4M in grants and recommends ending a 20-year Madison agreement
Summary
The board approved the 2026–27 draft school calendar (176 days, 990-hour requirement met). Administrators reported about $1.4 million in grants for FY26 to date, discussed a denied $900,000 SPARK ESY grant, and recommended reconsidering the long-standing Madison inter-district agreement because supplemental basic-aid caps now make the arrangement an unfunded cost.
The board approved the school calendar committee's recommended 2026–27 draft calendar by motion after a staff presentation that emphasized instructional hours, built-in professional development days and a strategy for making up weather days. The committee reported 176 instruction days and an estimated 1,073.6 instructional hours in the model, exceeding the state's 990-hour requirement.
On grants and donations, staff…
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