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Board recommends Calendar D (8:00 start) for 2026–27, pending negotiations
Summary
After discussing five calendar options, the board endorsed Calendar D — an 8:00 a.m. start with a week off at Thanksgiving and two fewer student contact days — and approved the recommendation pending negotiations with staff. Trustees discussed meal impacts and contract implications.
The board voted to recommend Calendar D for the 2026–27 school year, with final approval contingent on negotiations. Administration presented five options that balanced student contact days, teacher contract days and built-in snow days; Calendar D would start school at 8:00 a.m., reduce student contact days by two compared with the current calendar and include a week off at Thanksgiving.
"I'm recommending calendar D pending negotiations, with the 08:00 start time and the week off at Thanksgiving and the collaboration days remaining the first Wednesday of the month," said the staff member presenting the committee's recommendation. Trustees raised questions about graduation timing, student meal access on reduced days and how the change would affect negotiations with the teachers' association.
The board approved the administration's recommendation by voice vote and directed staff to carry the recommendation into negotiations with teachers and return with any negotiated changes.
