Thursday, April 2, 2025
The new extended Transylvania County Schools schedules for the 2026-27 school year.
Graphic courtesy Transylvania County Schools
Jonathan Rich
BrevardBeagle.com
Transylvania County public school students will be in class for an additional 10 minutes each day next year.
At the March 25th School Board meeting, Superintendent Lisa Fletcher asked to add 10 minutes to the regular school day in order to create a surplus throughout the school year without needing “Saturday school” or changing any scheduled time off for Thanksgiving, fall, winter, or spring breaks.
She said this will provide five additional instructional days on the calendar without changing the overall school year.
The additional 10 minutes of instruction will be spread throughout each day rather than be added as a single block of time and this change is already in effect for Transylvania County Schools.
On March 23rd, 10 minutes was added to each school day because North Carolina’s Department of Public Instruction limits school systems to only five remote learning days each year.
Transylvania County had already used all its time this year for weather-related closures and the new longer school days prompted the now permanent change.
School Board members Ruth Harris, Greg Chochran and Ricky Lambert voted to add 10 minutes to each school day. Board member Chris Weiner voted against this change.