For more and more Arkansas schools, 4 days are better than 5
by Arkansas Times
Arkansas Times— In the 2019-20 year, only four schools in Arkansas were operating on a four-day schedule. By the 2023-24 school year, there were 89 — a more than twentyfold increase.
The Nation—4-Day School Weeks Are a Raw Deal for Kids—and Their Parents. Sasha Abramsky The money-saving measure happening in districts throughout the country leaves too many kids without anything to do—or in some cases, anything to eat.
Chicago Sun-Times—Cubs lefty Justin Steele's start 'probably better than the line' as Cubs lose 5-4 to Pirates. Cubs lefty Justin Steele shook his head as he turned back toward the mound. He'd just located a second-pitch fastball up and in, half a ball...
www.thestar.co.uk—Chaucer School: Ofsted says better days ahead for Sheffield secondary two years on from 'inadequate' report. A Sheffield secondary school that was sent reeling by an sudden ‘inadequate’ report two years ago is on the threshold of a comeback. The community of Chaucer School, in Wordsworth Avenue, was rocked in September 2022 when it was handed a rock-bottom grade by Ofsted. The highly critical report stung all the more because, in the watchdog’s previous visit in March 2020, the leadership was told they were “taking effective action” to pull them up to a ‘good’ score. Instead, inspectors scolded pupils’...