What do you think: Is this schedule better for kids?
Louisiana’s Avoyelles Parish recently announced that it’s moving to a four-day school week next year, joining the approximately 560 school districts in 25 states that have already embraced three-day weekends year-round.
The move is expected to cut costs, as Avoyelles Parish superintendent Blaine Dauzat told Yahoo News that, “We are dead last in the state in teachers’ salaries,” as well as help hire and retain teachers who would still be paid five-day salaries while working for four days, albeit by extending the length they teach during the days that they’re on.
Most districts run Monday through Thursday, although a few have gone the Tuesday through Friday route, and the remaining school days are extended about an hour or an hour and a half longer to deliver the same amount of instructional time over fewer days, as required by state law. For one thing, academic outcomes have been mixed. While one Colorado study saw some higher math scores after students switched to four days, another found no significant difference. An unpublished Oregon study found a temporary decline in academic performance among minority, low-income and special needs students, in particular.
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