{"id":93441,"date":"2025-12-18T23:21:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T23:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/93441\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T23:21:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T23:21:08","slug":"richardson-isd-releasing-for-winter-break-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/93441\/","title":{"rendered":"Richardson ISD releasing for winter break this week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Public school students across Lake Highlands will leave school for the final time in 2025 this Friday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Lake-Highlands-High-scaled.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-124185\" class=\"size-full wp-image-124185\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Lake-Highlands-High-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1794\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-124185\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lake Highlands High School<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/web.risd.org\/home\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Richardson ISD<\/a> releases <a href=\"https:\/\/web.risd.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Calendar-2025-26_Eng.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">for winter break on Dec. 19 this year<\/a>. Staff will get two full weeks off and are set to return for development on Jan. 5, while students \u00a0return to classrooms Jan. 6.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Schools will release two hours early on Dec. 19. That means elementary schools will release students at 1:10 p.m, middle schools at 1:40 p.m. and high schools at 2:20 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Bus schedules and routes will be modified to account for the shortened school day. Parents may contact their child\u2019s campus for more information on routes and schedules. All RISD students are required to present ID badges to ride on district buses, a policy first<a href=\"https:\/\/lakehighlands.advocatemag.com\/2025\/08\/07\/richardson-isd-bus-badge\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> implemented for all grade levels earlier this year<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Richardson ISD Board of Trustees will next meet on Jan. 15.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tShare This Story, Choose Your Platform!<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1766100068_337_61d51f61716343c54581d9a2202d2162a03d15ee21d797247390707358060186\"  class=\"avatar avatar-72 photo\" height=\"72\" width=\"72\" decoding=\"async\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAustin Wood is the Lake Highlands editor for The Advocate. He is a graduate of Texas Tech University, where he wrote for The Daily Toreador. A lifelong resident of Lake Highlands, Austin loves learning about the neighborhood&#8217;s history and hidden gems. You can email him at awood@advocatemag.com\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Public school students across Lake Highlands will leave school for the final time in 2025 this Friday. Lake&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":93442,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[160,162,161],"class_list":{"0":"post-93441","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-plano","8":"tag-plano","9":"tag-plano-headlines","10":"tag-plano-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}