This week, the district released three draft calendars that could be implemented next school year. The drafts show students with Mondays off, Fridays off, or a traditional 5-day school week.

The district’s one-week Thanksgiving break dates to the 2012-13 school year and was an attempt to make mandatory furlough days “more palatable,” said school Operations Chief Andrés Chait.

SPS calendar for next school year includes full week off for Thanksgiving More than 4,400 parents and teachers weighed in on two calendar options for the 2023-24 school year.

Sometimes called "year-round school," the proposed calendar changes would cut the traditionally 10-week summer break down to about six weeks, with the first day of school in late July, and would ...