Mansfield ending 4-day school week experiment
By The Associated Press
This article was published April 23, 2010 at 2:05 p.m.
MANSFIELD — The Mansfield School District is ending its experiment with a four-day school week.
The School Board voted 3-2 on Thursday to go back to a traditional five-day school week.
The district says it’s saved more than $76,000 after it switched to a four-day week last fall. Most of those savings came from reduced fuel and utility costs, along with bus drivers’ salaries.
Under the schedule, students went to class from 7:45 a.m. to 4:10 p.m. Tuesday through Friday. Some parents complained that the class day was too long and worried that their children weren’t spending enough time moving around outside.
The district, which has been classified as fiscally distressed by the Arkansas Department of Education, will return to a traditional schedule this fall.
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