Students will start the 2020-2021 school year on Aug. 19 and finish classes on May 26 under the new school calendar approved Tuesday evening by the Lamesa school board. Superintendent Jim Knight said the calendar approved by the board was favored by 60 percent of the teachers who had a choice between it and another one which had school starting and getting out a week earlier. “They were kind of torn,” Knight told the board. “Some want to start earlier and get our earlier and some want to start later and get out a bit later.” It was the later start date that ...