The Independence school district just east of Kansas City, Mo., this Friday will wrap up its first school year implementing a four-days-a-week schedule. From Superintendent Dale Herl’s perspective, ...
Tre Sisco wanted a teaching job with a good work-life balance after graduating from Missouri Southern State University in 2023. During his job hunt, he learned Missouri’s Independence School District ...
A growing number of school districts have turned to abbreviated weeks over the past two decades, sometimes in a bid to save money, other times to give themselves the upper hand in recruiting teachers, ...
As summer fades away, young Americans get ready, often reluctantly, to return to school. About 57 million students will attend public and private elementary, middle, and high schools in the United ...