{"id":1554,"date":"2011-09-16T15:31:38","date_gmt":"2011-09-16T19:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=1554"},"modified":"2011-09-16T15:31:38","modified_gmt":"2011-09-16T19:31:38","slug":"pasco-considers-four-day-school-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2011\/09\/16\/pasco-considers-four-day-school-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Pasco Considers Four-Day School Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1555\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"Pasco County schools are considering a four-day week to reduce transportation costs.\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2011\/09\/PascoSchoolBus.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1555\" title=\"PascoSchoolBus\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2011\/09\/PascoSchoolBus-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2011\/09\/PascoSchoolBus-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2011\/09\/PascoSchoolBus-220x146.jpg 220w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2011\/09\/PascoSchoolBus.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Richard Elzey \/ Flickr<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pasco County schools are considering a four-day week to reduce transportation costs.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Pasco County is considering a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tampabay.com\/news\/education\/k12\/article1191873.ece\">four-day school week<\/a> next year to save about $3.5 million, the <em>St. Petersburg Times<\/em> reports.<\/p>\n<p>Bus drivers and cafeteria workers would lose one day of work a week. Teachers would no longer be paid for five lunch breaks each week.<\/p>\n<p>A 33-member task force will decide whether to recommend shortening the school week to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pasco.k12.fl.us\/\">Pasco County<\/a> School Board. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marion.k12.fl.us\/\">Marion County<\/a> is the only Florida district that has approved a four-day week for the 2012-2013 school year.<\/p>\n<p>Is a four-day week disruptive for students and teachers? Parents, could you cope with the change?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pasco County is considering a four-day school week next year to save about $3.5 million, the St. Petersburg Times reports. Bus drivers and cafeteria workers would lose one day of work a week. Teachers would no longer be paid for five lunch breaks each week. A 33-member task force will decide whether to recommend shortening [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[1036,1029,1052,1022],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1554"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1554"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1558,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1554\/revisions\/1558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}