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Podcast: Cascade CounterPoint
Episode: Beware the Four Day School Week
Description: As Oregon students return to the classrooms, watch out for a new fad that could make our state’s academic performance even worse.
That fad is known as the “four day school week.”
Oregon is one of only nine states that allows four day school weeks and more than 130 districts operate on a four-day schedule. Post-pandemic that number is sure to climb.
Many teachers and administrators like that it provides for a three day weekend every week.
Proponents push the four day week as a way to cut costs without harming academ...