By the time many Colorado kids who attend school four days a week graduate high school, their education is cut two years short.
It’s a math problem driven by a state funding problem that creates many more problems, according to Philip Qualman, the superintendent of Eagle County School District.
Qualman calculates it like this: Students enrolled in districts that run on four-day school weeks are in school under 160 days per year, with some down to 150 days, compared with the 180 days many of their peers across the country attend school. Those students are in school 30 fewer days, which adds up to six weeks in a single school year. Over the span of a student’s time in grades K-12, that shaves about two years off the total time they spend in school.
Read more at The Colorado Sun.
