A growing number of school districts have turned to abbreviated weeks over the past two decades, sometimes in a bid to save ...

Math teacher Andrew Skinner greets students the week before classes resume at Martensdale-St. Marys in August 2025. Like many Iowa school districts that follow a four-day school week, Martensdale-St.

Questa Independent School District is one of more than 40 districts in New Mexico that had a four-day schedule in 2024. (Credit: Anya Petrone Slepyan / The Daily Yonder) This story was produced with ...

A rising number of districts are shortening their school weeks to attract and keep teachers. But a new study suggests four-day schedules might become a victim of their own popularity. Andrew Camp, a ...

Just over half the states in the U.S. have schools that operate on a 4 day/per week schedule. Their numbers continue to climb. It's an effort by schools to attract and retain teachers. Each year, more ...

FRANKLIN COUNTY, Va. (WDBJ) - A new trend is spreading across the nation, a four-day school week. Data from the National Council of State Legislatures said more than 800 school districts across the ...

Two decades ago, the East Feliciana Parish school district shifted to a four-day school week. Seven years later, the district discontinued it and reverted to a traditional five-day school week. After ...