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State committee advances rule to standardize 4-day school week waivers after presentation and public comment
Summary
After public comment from a rural superintendent and a staff presentation summarizing national research, the Law and Licensing Committee amended and approved draft rule R277-121 to formalize a two-meeting waiver process and forwarded the rule to the full board on first reading.
Superintendent Bruce Northcott of Daggett School District told the Law and Licensing Committee that his small, rural district has run a four-day school week for 11 years and supports formalizing a waiver process.
“Yes. I am Bruce Northcott, superintendent of Daggett School District,” Northcott said. “We think that this is a really good thing for our community.”
The committee then heard a staff research briefing from Ashley Lehi, who summarized multi-state studies and local survey results about four-day school weeks. Lehi said nationwide adoption has grown rapidly and that recent aggregated research found mixed effects on achievement, with some statistically significant reading declines and mitigation linked to daily instructional hours.
“This stu…
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