Whats ed board say about four-day school week?
Jim Fisher April 16, 2006 Lewiston Morning Tribune As Idaho’s State Board of Education proposes rules to “redesign high schools” for the better, some school districts around the state are redesigning all their schools — possibly for the worse. School districts moving from a five-day to a four-day school week point to studies supposedly showing it does not harm education. But none of them is reducing the length of the week to improve education. They are doing it to save money. Where is the board in the midst of this disturbing trend? Where is the Legislature? Whether learning suffers from extending the length of the school day or not is beyond the competence of this page to answer. But it knows that those charged with the quality of education throughout the state should look beyond the word of administrators who are making the shift for that answer. That’s especially true as the number of districts abbreviating their school week grows. Districts in Orofino and Challis adopted the four-
