Pasco Schools Consider 4-Day Week to Fix Budget Shortfalls

http://www.educationnews.org/ednews_today/152645.html

I thought that this article was very relevant for this weeks news article since the presentation this week represented the structure of schools and explained a 4 day school week instead of the normal 5 day school week. The Pasco school is seriously considering having a 4 day week instead of a 5 day so that they can budget money and use it towards other school funds. They drawbacks of this operation would be that parents might have to pay more for their children to go to daycare, school staff (janitors, lunch crew) would lose pay due to the shorter week. Overall, I feel like four days a week wouldn't be that big of a problem. I think that academically the students would be fine and maybe even strive in a  four day week. However, it would be terrible for the employees of the school who would be losing income.