Wake County students will have a weekly scheduled day off more than a third of the time next school year, creating what some call a “fragmented school calendar.”
Wake County traditional-calendar students are only scheduled to have a full, five-day school week 64% of the time for the 2026-27 school year, according to Anna Egalite, a professor at N.C. State and an education researcher. Egalite is warning that the inclusion of so many teacher workdays during the school year could impact student learning and cause hardships for families.
“It just creates this monthly problem for parents to work out,” Egalite said in an interview with The News & Observer. “It’s on a random weekday, It’s hard to book a babysitter on a Tuesday, so I think that the effects are unequally felt.”…