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Cartwright forum hears mixed views as district gathers feedback on returning to five-day week
Summary
At a Cartwright Elementary District community forum, district staff outlined three options — keep four days, move to five days, or a hybrid with teacher work on Fridays — and invited comment. Teachers and support staff raised concerns about data consistency, teacher retention, special-education services, and costs; no decision was made.
Cartwright Elementary District officials convened a community forum to gather input on whether to change the district’s calendar from a four-day week back to a five-day schedule. District staff presented three options — remain on a four-day week, switch to a conventional five-day schedule, or adopt a hybrid in which teachers work more days while students attend four days and receive targeted Friday services — and repeatedly told attendees that "a decision has not been made."
The meeting featured extended public comment from teachers, instructional-support staff and other employees who urged careful review of the data and raised practical concerns about implementation. Ramon Lopez, an eighth-grade math teacher at CW Harris, said school-level data show improvements since the district adopted a four-day schedule: "During the 2021–22 school year, we had almost a 35 percent of our students who were…
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