Day: November 20, 2015
Across rural Idaho, four-day weeks become routine
In Idaho’s four-day districts, many parents, students and staff covet the flexibility of free Fridays. This helps explain how the schedule has become engrained in small-town Idaho.
Challis embraces change — but with reservations
Challis High School senior Shayanne Bradshaw has never attended school on Friday. Neither have most of her 372 classmates in the mountainous, rural district in Central Idaho’s Custer County. In 2003-04, district leaders switched from a five-day schedule to a four-day weekly calendar, hoping to cut transportation costs, alleviate the stress of weekday athletic events…
Lawmakers: No Idaho Education Network, Version 2.0
A legislative committee said it wanted no part of a statewide system that “mirrors” the failed statewide school broadband network.