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What this school district learned from a 4-day week

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What this school district in New Mexico learned from a 4-day week.

Since the Great Recession, a growing number of school districts have downsized the school week from five days to four. With our partner Education Week, special correspondent Kavitha Cardoza traveled to Bayard, New Mexico, to visit a school district that just completed its first year with the reduced school schedule. It's another installment of our weekly education series, Making the Grade.

08/28/2018

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