Labour has fought back against the four-day working week by demanding answers from the first council to trial it following reports of deterioration in services. Steve Reed, the Communities Secretary, ...

Staff at one local authority are doing fewer hours for the same pay. How is it working out?

Campaigners have written to the government calling for a pilot of a four-day working week at schools in England and Wales, which they claim will benefit both teachers and students. In a letter to ...

Two years after rejecting a four-day week, Jerome School District is once more looking at the option as a way to retain and ...

INDEPENDENCE, Mo. (KCTV) - The Independence School District Board of Education is putting its support behind a four-day school week ballot measure that’s up for a vote next month. The Board of ...

Northeast of the capital city of Des Moines in central Iowa, the 400-student Collins-Maxwell Community School District is one of many across the state shifting to a four-day school week. Like many ...

In an effort to recruit and retain more teachers, the Independence School District transitioned to a four-day school week two years ago. Independence adopted the shorter school week two years ago to ...

Just over half the states in the U.S. have schools that operate on a 4 day/per week schedule. Their numbers continue to climb. It's an effort by schools to attract and retain teachers. Each year, more ...

When 5th grade math teacher Courtney White tells people that her school operates on a four-day week schedule, they tend to respond with shock: "Wait, do you work in Narnia?" No, her school doesn't ...

Students returned to Nowlin Middle School in Independence for the first day of school in 2022, amid a metro-wide teacher shortage. The following year, the Independence School District adopted a ...