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At the end of April, the Mineral Wells Independent School District, located about 50 miles west of Fort Worth, lost one of its most treasured educators. After teaching there for
“We started losing teachers to that four-day school week, regardless of what we paid,” one rural Texas school district had to adapt to attract and retain teachers.
After the pandemic sent a jolt through the American education system, interrupting the learning of millions of children, a new report offers some hope: By the end of the last school year, many students had returned to a normal pace of academic growth for the first time since the pandemic began.
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The switch to four-day school weeks is popular among smaller school districts that don’t always have the finances to attract or retain teachers with pay increases.
At the end of April, the Mineral Wells Independent School District, located about 50 miles west of Fort Worth, lost one of its most treasured educators. After teaching there for