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Focus on the School Calendar: The Four-Day School Week is a crisp but exhaustive 7-page look at the pros and cons of shifting from five-day to four-day weeks. Published by the Southern Regional Education Board (August 2008).

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Focus on the School Calendar: The Four-Day School Week

"When the economy weakens, heightened consideration is given to ways in which schools can more efficiently use financial resources. Discussions about implementing four-day school weeks — with students attending school more hours each day — are surfacing again in some states. While the need to balance the budget is real," says this report from the Southern Regional Education Board, "the current emphasis on improving student achievement should continue to be central to state-level decisions affecting students and schools."

The report offers a concise summary of the available national information on four-day school weeks, including the available data on real costs and benefit.

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