About 100 schools in as many as 16 states have already moved to a four-day school week, many to save money on transportation, heating and cooling, Reuters reports.
Webster County School District in Kentucky switched to a four-day week four years ago during a budget crisis, choosing to drop school days rather than cut staff and programs. Not only did Webster save money, but attendance and student performance went up. ”If we were to go back to a five-day week, the school board and I would be run out of town,” says superintendent James Kemp.
