Peetz school board rejects 4-day week for 2016-17 school year

The Peetz Plateau School District will remain on its current five-day week schedule through at least the 2016-2017 school year after board members rejected moving the district to a four-day week.

The decision was made during the school board's regular meeting held on March 15.

Peetz Superintendent Mark Collard said discussion to move the district to a four-day week began in December last year.

"We did research on it and held some open forums," Collard said. "Some hard copy survey materials and things like that to see where the parents and the community were at."

Collard the main impetus for th...