In a vote of four to one Tuesday morning in a special board meeting, the Huntley Project School Board voted to move towards a modified four-day school week starting in the 2024-2025 school year. With the recommendation from School Superintendent Mark Wandle, who spoke to the board before they cast their votes, community surveys as well as multiple community meetings were conducted to gage the concerns and support from staff, parents and community members.
The clarification to call it a modified school schedule was due to some weeks will be two or three days a week while others will actually be five-day weeks.
About 20 schools throughout the state have already gone to four-day school weeks, according to Supt. Wandle.
This change comes after school officials have been discussing the change for some years.
Board trustee Tim Ley, who attended the board meeting by zoom, said that as he did not attend any of the public community meetings, he did get feedback from some in the community.
In his nay vote, Ley said, “It is in my opinion that less school days is to hurt the students even though I read more
