is it true that schools in the U.S. are going to extend to weekends and summer programs?

Question

this is for city schools and county schools

Answer 1

For some students this seem like the best option to keep them off the streets (so to speak). While the upper-income students have summer or weekend or afternoon enrichment programs that their parents can afford to send their kids, lower-income students do not always have that luxury to stay academically enriched over the summer or the weekends or after-school.

The idea to extend the lower-income school's day thru afternoon tutorials to weekends to summers has proven to be effective with the KIPP schools. KIPP students go to school for an extra 2 hours/day, attend school half-day on Saturdays, AND go an extra month during the summers. As a result, KIPP students who would normally be at-risk in the public schools, are achieving better test scores, and going to college at a higher rate. The rationale is simple--the more time students spend in school means less time for them to get into trouble in the streets. The parents like it because most parents have to work longer hours anyways.

Now can the KIPP school scale to a large district? That is the question. The teaching turnover rate at KIPP is pretty high since most teachers can handle maybe 2-3 years of such a schedule.

Being a teacher at KIPP is like being a parent to a hundred children. Any mother of 4 can tell you how hard it is to raise children, but extend that to being a mother of 100, and you understand what it is like to be a teacher at KIPP.

Answer 2

NOOO! HOLD ME MOMMY! THE MEAN GOVERNMENT WANTS TO EXTEND SCHOOLS TO WEEKENDS AND SUMMER!

Answer 3

It is my understanding that they are trying to make most schools "Year around".

Answer 4

NO