Pasco School Board Studies Year-Round School
PASCO, Wash. -- Pasco Schools are moving forward with a plan to keep kids in school year-round. The board unanimously agreed to move forward with the process to study year-round schooling.
Students in elementary and middle school would have staggered schedules: 60 days on, 20 days off to relieve over-crowding. The district gets so many new kids every year it could fill an elementary school.
KEPR searched the state and didn't find any other public schools that have a year-round plan and find out how well it's working. We found an elementary school in Yakima scrapped their year-round schedule a few years ago.
Austin DeVine, a Pasco resident who drops off his siblings at Pasco schools, opposed the plan since he believed it would be too disruptive to the status quo, "Kids also take vacation with their families during summer which is a good time for families to get together and year-round schools could mess that up," he said.
The Pasco School District adopted a task force on this issue that meets monthly and will have a recommendation by the end of summer.
Students in elementary and middle school would have staggered schedules: 60 days on, 20 days off to relieve over-crowding. The district gets so many new kids every year it could fill an elementary school.
KEPR searched the state and didn't find any other public schools that have a year-round plan and find out how well it's working. We found an elementary school in Yakima scrapped their year-round schedule a few years ago.
Austin DeVine, a Pasco resident who drops off his siblings at Pasco schools, opposed the plan since he believed it would be too disruptive to the status quo, "Kids also take vacation with their families during summer which is a good time for families to get together and year-round schools could mess that up," he said.
The Pasco School District adopted a task force on this issue that meets monthly and will have a recommendation by the end of summer.
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