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Board leans toward later-start calendar B for 2025–26; formal vote slated for January
Summary
Two draft 2025–26 calendars were discussed: Calendar A mirrors current pattern; Calendar B shifts the school start one week later (benefits for athletics, graduation falling in June 3) and drew majority staff preference; board will place Calendar B on the January agenda for potential approval after further review.
District leaders presented two draft school calendars for 2025–26 and explained a recent legislative change allowing districts to meet either a required number of instructional hours or 180 days. Calendar A mostly mirrors the current year; Calendar B delays the start by one week, pushes graduation to early June (June 3 in the draft) and offers a spring-break layout that some trustees and staff prefer.
Speaker 1 said staff, administrators and building representatives reviewed both drafts and that the majority favored Calendar B for logistical and athletic reasons. Trustees discussed how the hour-versus-day decision affects snow-day makeups (options include not making up certain days if hourly requirement is met or using remote make-up days) and whether Martin Luther King Day should remain a professional-development day with hours recaptured in half days.
Several trustees favored sending Calendar B to the January board meeting for official approval to give families time to plan; others asked for more time and suggested February if needed. The board did not take a vote tonight and will put the calendar on the January agenda as directed.
