OKLAHOMA CITY ( KFOR ) — The topic of a four-day school week is making headlines again in Oklahoma.
About a decade ago, hundreds of districts made the switch as a way to save money.
However, one of the state’s largest districts, Broken Arrow, says that’s not the reason they’re considering a shorter school week.
Instead, they say it’s about solving a staffing and mental health problem.
There are already a handful of districts that have been operating on four-day school weeks for years.
But, they are much smaller than Broken Arrow, which boasts a population of more than 20,000 students.
From conversations News 4 has had with people, opinions on the schedule shift are mixed, to say the least.
“We also started looking on a national level because none of the local districts that we were looking at that are already doing this are comparative to us, the number of enrollment and size,” Tara Thompson, with Broken Arrow School District said.
More than 2,100 school districts in 25 states operate on a four day school week. In Oklahoma, the number is between 50 and 100.