four-day weeks

A 2019 law was designed to limit four-day school weeks across Oklahoma, but those districts are making an effort to keep their four-day calendars alive.

As Oklahoma has debated the strengths and weaknesses of four-day school weeks in rural districts for years, there’s never been much actual research supporting or discouraging the practice.

The practice of four-day school weeks will likely continue widely during the 2021-22 school year in Oklahoma. The state’s Board of Education approved a…

A group of rural Oklahoma lawmakers are asking the State Department of Education to reconsider rules they say would end four-day school weeks.The 16…

The fate of the four-day school week, used by dozens of rural districts in Oklahoma, is up in the air. Erika Buzzard Wright doesn’t hesitate to admit she…

The state’s bar has been set for schools to operate on a four-day week and the requirements could force many schools back to five days a week.School…

Danica Thompson settles into a couch in the back of Gray Owl Coffee in Norman, where patrons tap away on laptops or read books, surrounded by the smell of…