four-day schools

From ‘Idaho Reports:’ more four-day schools coverage

Check out Idaho Public TV’s look at the four-day debate — and a closer look at the schedule’s social impacts.

Across rural Idaho, four-day weeks become routine

In Idaho’s four-day districts, many parents, students and staff covet the flexibility of free Fridays. This helps explain how the schedule has become engrained in small-town Idaho.

Challis embraces change — but with reservations

Challis High School senior Shayanne Bradshaw has never attended school on Friday. Neither have most of her 372 classmates in the mountainous, rural district in Central Idaho’s Custer County. In 2003-04, district leaders switched from a five-day schedule to a four-day weekly calendar, hoping to cut transportation costs, alleviate the stress of weekday athletic events…

Teachers and students adjust to longer school days

The four-day schedule has transformed how teachers teach, who teaches in rural Idaho — and how students learn.

‘No time to waste:’ Notus runs at a fast pace

The Notus School District is a success story — but, perhaps, a success story that just happens to be unfolding on a four-day campus.

A schedule change saves money. Just not much.

And for some four-day districts, even the modest savings came at an unacceptable cost to employees.

Preston upholds a decision driven by dollars

Five years after adopting a four-day calendar, daunting fiscal realities continue to confront Preston schools.

Four-day school test scores are inconclusive — but troubling

It’s difficult to draw firm conclusions from Idaho’s test results. Sample sizes are small. Long-term trends are elusive.

Sage and COSSA Academy: Two four-day outliers

The two schools are shaped by their four-day calendar — but are defined, starkly, by differing demographics.

An unproven experiment, involving 26,881 Idaho students

Opinions about Idaho’s four-day schools are rampant. Hard statistics are scarce.