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Board adopts 2025–26 school calendar with three full professional development days
Summary
The board unanimously adopted the 2025–26 calendar that replaces numerous one‑hour early releases with three full professional development days (24 PD hours) to support curriculum implementation and provide greater consistency for families and staff.
After receiving feedback from staff and families, the district proposed a 2025–26 calendar that retains the September 2 start and June 11 end but replaces multiple one‑hour early releases with three full professional development days early in the year and one mid‑year. Policy committee lead (S9) explained the calendar will increase total PD seat time and concentrate training around updated literacy curriculum implementation.
"This calendar... has 10 more hours of seat time even though it has less days," the policy committee lead said, noting the district will still meet Oregon’s instructional minutes requirements. Board member discussion emphasized the benefits of full PD days for real instructional planning and the importance of staff attendance on those days. A motion to adopt the 2025–26 calendar passed unanimously.
Why it matters: The calendar change affects transportation scheduling, family planning and teacher professional learning. Staff will continue to work with transportation and building schedules to try to provide meaningful data‑analysis time for secondary teachers within the new structure.
