Toronto Star: U.S. schools switch to four-day week to save money

[marmar]

Lesley Ciarula Taylor
Staff Reporter


A South Dakota school district has joined the march toward a four-day school week to save money.

The Irene-Wakonda district figures it can save $50,000, or the equivalent of one teacher, by running classes Monday through Thursday and stretching each day by about 30 minutes.

“Children are pretty resilient,” district Superintendent Larry Johnke told the Star on Tuesday. “Time wise, there’s not a lot of difference. We did our research and found test scores have not gone down in places that have a four-day week.”

The 300-student Irene-Wakonda district lost of a chunk of its $2.3 million budget from the state and had already cut events, an art program and two coaches. .............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/1043742--u-s-schools-switch-to-four-day-week-to-save-money?bn=1

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. Would you like fries with that?

or worst, jobs at substandard wages... here we go

[ixion]

2. so embarrassing

seriously. :(

[murphyj87]

3. The US is way behind in education already........

Rank in the world in education:

In Reading

Canada 4th
US 18th

In Science

Canada 10th
US 23rd

In Math

Canada 7th
US 26th