Nahant School Committee Approves $73,600 Bill Roll, Revamps 2026-27 Calendar

NAHANT — January 6, 2026 — Nahant School Committee approves $73,600 bill roll and restructures draft 2026-27 school calendar. At the committee's first meeting of 2026 on January 6, members voted unanimously to approve expenditures of $73,600.58 before spending the majority of the session on a draft academic calendar complicated by a late Labor Day on September 7, 2026. Superintendent Don Thibault warned that with no built-in snow days beyond the statutory five, even a single storm day would push the last school day past June 15. After extended debate over whether to place a professional development day on the Tuesday after Martin Luther King Day or the preceding Friday, the committee agreed instead to add two consecutive teacher professional days in late August — tentatively August 27 and 28 — allowing students to start September 1 and eliminating a mid-year professional day to recover end-of-year buffer. No formal calendar vote was taken; a revised draft is expected at the committee's next meeting.