Schools use 4-day week to cut costs

Jeremy Hobson @ Marketplace:

One of the states that's most on-board with the four day school week is Colorado. Mostly because it's so rural, which means long bus routes.

WENDY DUNAWAY: As of 2007, we had 67 out of 178 districts that are on a four-day week.

That's Wendy Dunaway with the Colorado Department of Education. She says the districts that have switched are almost all rural and are generally happy with the change.

On a rainy afternoon at a hotel in Colorado Springs, about 25 people gather in a medium-sized conference room. They are parents, teachers and administrators from the Calhan School District, which has been on a four-day schedule since the last energy crisis nearly three decades ago.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at September 4, 2008 8:53 AM
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