High transportation costs leads rural Nevada district to go to four-day school week - Entrepreneur Generations

Three rural schools in rural Elko County, Nevada will switch to four-day weeks "to allow students in those areas more time at home and to cut down on travel," Hasani Grayson reports for the Elko Daily Free Press. The school board, which approved the decision by a 5-0 vote said school days will be nine hours, instead of seven and a half hours, to make up for the extra day. (Wikipedia map: Elko County, Nevada)

"The four-day school week will help ease the burden on parents who have to travel long distances to drop their children off at school and for families who need the extra help from their children at home but it is also creating a new challenge for the teachers," Grayson writes.

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