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District and bargaining side disagree on timing for calendar changes; district suggests calendar committee review
Summary
The district said next year’s calendar is published and proposed the academic-calendar committee consider changes for 2027–28; bargaining representatives argued calendar days are a mandatory negotiable topic and urged starting the bargaining discussion now rather than deferring to subcommittees.
Negotiators debated whether changes to the academic calendar should be handled now at the bargaining table or examined by the academic-calendar committee for next year.
A district representative said the calendars have been printed for the upcoming year and that it is late in the process to change the 2026-27 calendar. The district proposed that the calendar committee study options for the 2027–28 school year and offered to create two calendar options so negotiators could see how shifting duty days would work.
Bargaining participants countered that the academic calendar is a mandatory negotiable topic and that moving discussion to subcommittees or outside groups risks excluding members from public bargaining. One bargaining participant asked why the parties could not insert language now to allow a reduced number of duty days for the 2027–28 school year and begin the necessary notice process.
District and bargaining representatives agreed there is room to explore calendar options but left the timing and process for further discussion; the academic-calendar committee was offered as the vehicle to study alternatives and propose options for bargaining consideration.
Next step: calendar-committee work and further notice to the bargaining table for 2027–28 calendar options.
