When 5th grade math teacher Courtney White tells people that her school operates on a four-day week schedule, they tend to respond with shock: "Wait, do you work in Narnia?" No, her school doesn't ...

Bridget Phillipson has been urged to bring in a four-day week for teachers to improve recruitment and retention. The 4 Day Week Foundation has written to the Education Secretary to ask for schools to ...

A growing number of school districts have turned to abbreviated weeks over the past two decades, sometimes in a bid to save money, other times to give themselves the upper hand in recruiting teachers, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Students returned to Nowlin Middle School in Independence for the first day of school in 2022, amid a metro-wide teacher shortage.

HENDERSON, Colo. — Support for the four-day workweek is starting to grow in workplaces across the country, but many school districts are switching to this model too. The pandemic inspired more schools ...

In an effort to recruit and retain more teachers, the Independence School District transitioned to a four-day school week two years ago. Independence adopted the shorter school week two years ago to ...

The Colorado Sun talked to education experts across Colorado about the impact of four-day school weeks during a virtual event ...