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Board asks staff to model year-round and four-day-week calendar scenarios
Summary
Members asked staff to prepare calendar scenarios — including a four-day week or stretched year with shorter summer — and to work with the union; staff will return a set of options for board review at a future work session.
Board members raised the possibility of a year-round or alternative calendar structure to reduce long summer learning loss and improve staff scheduling. Committee member (S3) proposed options such as a four-day school week stretched across the year or a balanced year schedule with shorter summer breaks and several shorter breaks during the year.
Members emphasized the need to work with the teachers' union because contract language determines how instructional time and staff days are structured. The board asked staff to prepare several calendar scenarios for review at an upcoming work session, with attention to academic impacts, childcare and staff workload.
No formal vote occurred; staff (S3 and administrative colleagues) will draft calendars and return with recommendations.
