1A Across America: The Growing Trend Of The Four-Day School Week
Monolingual Hispanic students raise their hands to answer a question during a class taught in Spanish at Birdwell Elementary School in Tyler, Texas. Mario Villafuerte/PHOTO BY MARIO VILLAFUERTE/GETTY IMAGES hide caption
Monolingual Hispanic students raise their hands to answer a question during a class taught in Spanish at Birdwell Elementary School in Tyler, Texas.
Mario Villafuerte/PHOTO BY MARIO VILLAFUERTE/GETTY IMAGESBack in 2016, about 120 districts nationwide had three-day weekends.
Today that's up to about 560 districts.
Proponents say the move will help schools cut costs and bolster teacher recruitment. But there's concern that a four-day school week is tough on low-income families, who rely on the meals and childcare embedded in a school day.
We talked about the true cost of cutting class around the country.
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