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Math teacher Andrew Skinner greets students the 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.

Six Iowa public school districts operated on a four-day week during the 2023-2024 school year. This fall, 27 districts will be using this schedule. In 2013, the Iowa Legislature passed a law that ...

Every day at 4 a.m. for the past 19 years, Jason Wu shows up to this kitchen to make donuts and croissants. "This is dollar by dollar to send them to school," said Wu. There's relentless pressure to ...

Casey Adams, superintendent of the Woodson Independent School District, poses for a portrait at the Woodson ISD library on July 28, 2025. The district adopted a four-day school week model in 2019.