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Liberty Hill ISD board approves hybrid 2025-26 calendar with Fridays set for teacher time
Summary
After hours of debate focusing on teacher workload, childcare and transportation, trustees approved a hybrid 2025-26 calendar that uses many Fridays for teacher professional time while keeping 160 student days and 187 staff days; board members asked staff to refine Friday expectations before contracts are issued.
The Liberty Hill ISD Board of Trustees voted Feb. 18 to approve a hybrid 2025-26 school calendar designed to create more time for teacher planning and professional development while preserving most instructional requirements.
District staff described the calendar as a compromise between competing preferences. The plan that passed calls for 160 student instructional days and 187 staff days, with teachers starting the year the week of Aug. 4 and students starting Tuesday, Aug. 12. Parts of the school year would use four-day student weeks and five-day staff weeks (Fridays designated for district or campus professional development in…
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