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Board adopts revised 2025–26 calendar after debate over Juneteenth and makeup days
Summary
After debate over whether Juneteenth should be an instructional day and how to make up snow days, the Wethersfield Board approved a revised 2025–26 school calendar. The superintendent proposed contingency strategies to avoid a late‑June end date and outlined a multi‑stage process for the 2027–29 two‑year calendar.
The Wethersfield Board of Education approved a revised 2025–26 school calendar after members debated how to recover snow days and whether Juneteenth should be used for instructional programming.
Superintendent Whibbe told the Board that accumulated snow days would push the projected last day of school into late June unless the district used mitigation strategies to preserve instructional time and remain compliant with the state requirement for 180 school days. He proposed…
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