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Louisiana isn’t the only state experimenting with a four-day school week. Approximately 850 districts are on a four-day schedule this year, compared to 650 in 2020.
At the end of last school year, Blalock sent out a survey to his teachers asking if the four-day week would help with teacher wellness. He said 70% of respondents thought so then.
The district will be the largest in Missouri to adopt a four-day week model, with no classes on Mondays.
The five-day workweek is a cultural norm; the result of early 1900s union advocacy to reduce the six-day workweek, which led to the invention of the weekend.In the early 20th century, when the average work week in developed nations was reduced from around 60 to 40 hours, it was expected that further decreases would occur over time.
National School Choice Week was founded in 2011 to promote the concept of all forms of school choice: district schools, district magnet schools, charter schools, private schools, and home schooling. The event, which takes place the last week of January each year, is sponsored by the National School Choice Awareness Foundation.
Clothing items used to express beliefs during a Black Lives Matter protest. Hip-hop clothing is an umbrella term for a variety of styles influenced by hip-hop and trap music. Throughout the 2020s, streetwear fashion was a continued presence in mainstream culture, incorporating elements from designer fashion, athleisure, and vintage clothing.
School districts that drop to a four-day week can produce a maximum savings of 5.43%, according to the Education Commission of the States, but most districts average savings between 0.4% and 2.5%.
Even though most schools extend the school day to cover for at least some of the lost time, the four-day week nearly always means fewer hours of instruction and less academic growth.