(Bismarck, ND) — New rules are in place for schools that want to move to four-day weeks. State School Superintendent Levi Bachmeier says the rules are designed to improve academic performance and encourage innovation. There are fourteen school districts that currently operate on a four-day week and four more have been approved this fall. A public hearing on the rules is set for June 4th at the State Capitol’s Peace Garden Room. State law currently requires elementary schools to have 962-point-five hours of class time per year and middle and high schools to have one-thousand-50 hours.
