The News and Observer published an article about the first year-round school to open since 2012. The piece included this little nugget:
[School board member Bill] Fletcher, who serves as chairman of the school board’s facilities committee, said the group has asked school system staff to study whether there are academic benefits to the year-round format. The committee also wants to know whether it’s cheaper to build a new school than to operate a year-round school.
Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. Wake County has had year-round schools since 1988 (?) and nobody thought to determine if there is a relationship between year-round calendars and student achievement in Wake County?
Given the massive scope of Wake County’s year-round calendar program, it would make sense to revisit the issue, at minimum, every two or three years.
H/T: JS
