The Frisco ISD board of trustees approved the new 2016-17 school calendar that gives students and staff fewer days in school in exchange for more class time. Under a new state law, districts are now required to have a minimum of 75,600 minutes of instruction rather than a required number of school days.

Before the new law, which was passed last June, FISD received a waiver from the state to allow the district to use three of its school days for additional staff development days. Under the 2015-16 school year calendar students are attending school for 177 days, and staff has 10 development days.

For the 2016-17 calendar, students will be attending school for 174 days.

State report

Frisco ISD staff presented the district’s 2014-15 Texas Academic Performance Report, which includes accreditation status, campus performance, information on violent or criminal incidents and information on student postsecondary performance. Overall the district fared better in all subjects than the state and the region in the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness exams. FISD also exceeded target points in student achievement, student growth, closing the achievement gap and postsecondary readiness. Frisco ISD exceeds target points in new state report.[/caption] The report also found that that 27.5 percent of FISD teachers have Masters degrees compared with the state at 23.4 percent. The report also includes the district's financial data based on the 2013-14 school year including receipts, fund balances, disbursements, property values, tax rates and expenditures. Total expenditures plus debt service for FISD in 2013-14 was $13,242. In the 2014-15 school year there was a total of four reported of violent/criminal incidents at FISD according to the report. For more information on the TAPR report and the calendar, click here.