A growing number of school districts have turned to abbreviated weeks over the past two decades, sometimes in a bid to save money, other times to give themselves the upper hand in recruiting teachers, ...

ELDON, IOWA, rarely bustles. “We’re on top of a hill, in the middle of nowhere, surrounded by corn,” explains James Craig, the superintendent of the area’s school district, which has about 1,000 ...

There’s a growing movement in Fairfax County where parents are demanding more five-day school weeks. Right now, fewer than half of the school weeks have five days of instruction time in Fairfax County ...