A Nacogdoches ISD District of Innovation committee has prepared a two-year calendar that will be considered by NISD’s Board of Trustees later this month. The proposed calendars would be for the 2024-25 and 2025-26 academic years. The DOI committee includes NISD teachers and staff as decision makers.
DOI committee members include Crystal Ballard, Emily Drewery, Gari Dial, Adelaide Harber, Claire Bray, Penny Long, Jacqueline Meyer, Dr. Katherine Whitbeck, Ashley Higgins, Colleen Williamson and Deborah Lyons. Non-voting members include Maury Tarvin, Dr. Evelyn Sauceda, Shaunta Rogers, Michael Martin, Harold Whitaker, Dr. Daya Hill, Dr. Kimberly Welsh, Dr. Jo Lynn Corley, Dr. Gabriel Trujillo.
NISD’s District Advisory Committee, a group made up of NISD staff and community members, OK’d the proposed calendars on Tuesday. The calendars will now go to the school board for consideration on March 28.
NISD became a District of Innovation a year ago. The distinction, part of a law adopted by Texas legislators in 2015, allows public schools to take advantage of some of the flexibilities afforded the state’s charter schools, including how school calendars are designed.
If adopted March 28 by the school board, the proposed calendar for the 2024-25 school year would have classes beginning Wednesday, Aug. 14, and the last day of the academic year would be May 22, 2025, with graduation taking place on May 23, 2025. For the 2025-26 school year, the proposed calendar would have classes starting on Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2025, and ending on May 21, 2026. Graduation that year would take place on May 22, 2026. NISD teachers would report for the start of the new school years on Aug. 1, 2024, and on Aug. 1, 2025.
In both proposed calendars, spring break week is scheduled to match up with spring break for Stephen F. Austin State University.