{"id":52419,"date":"2015-11-27T17:46:28","date_gmt":"2015-11-27T17:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/npr_when_a_4-day_school_week_might_cost_more_than_it_saves\/"},"modified":"2015-11-27T17:46:28","modified_gmt":"2015-11-27T17:46:28","slug":"npr_when_a_4-day_school_week_might_cost_more_than_it_saves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=52419","title":{"rendered":"(NPR) When A 4-Day School Week Might Cost More Than It Saves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fine for teachers, but it can be tough on parents&#8217; schedules and wallets.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, the district says the schedule is so unpopular with families that it expects to loose several hundred students to other school systems.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My best friend, she and her family, her two brothers, they moved to a private school because of the four-day school week,&#8221; says fifth-grader Chloe Florence. And that&#8217;s bad news for Apache Junction Unified, which is funded on a per-student basis.<\/p>\n<p>Jennifer Florence says it just doesn&#8217;t add up, but her family has decided to stick it out.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In a philosophical sense we believe very strongly in public education. So we are trying to support the system. Abandoning a ship, it will sink.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/ed\/2015\/11\/27\/451754700\/when-a-four-day-school-week-might-cost-more-than-it-saves?sc=ipad&#038;f=1001\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fine for teachers, but it can be tough on parents&#8217; schedules and wallets. In fact, the district says the schedule is so unpopular with families that it expects to loose several hundred students to other school systems. &#8220;My best friend,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=52419\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,175,101,149,111,168,98,593,151,619,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-anthropology","category-children","category-economy","category-education","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-marriage-family","category-personal-finance","category-politics-in-general","category-state-government","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}