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Math teacher Andrew Skinner greets students a week before classes resume at Martensdale-St.Marys in August 2025. Like many Iowa school districts that follow a four-day school week, Martensdale-St.Marys is small (with only about 500 students) and rural.
Lucius Pham
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Iowa Public Radio
With more school districts adopting a four-day school week, educators and parents are grappling with a question that isn’t easy to answer: What trade-offs come with a shortened school week, and are those trade-offs worth it? It depends who you ask.

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