{"id":1204271,"date":"2023-02-21T13:28:27","date_gmt":"2023-02-21T19:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1204271"},"modified":"2023-02-22T10:50:29","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T16:50:29","slug":"overton-isd-takes-more-input-on-four-day-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1204271","title":{"rendered":"Overton ISD takes more input on four-day week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/02\/o-175x81.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"175\" height=\"81\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1204272\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/02\/o-175x81.jpg 175w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/02\/o.jpg 329w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 175px) 100vw, 175px\" \/>OVERTON \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Overton ISD hosted its third community meeting about changing to a four-day week. According to our news partner KETK, Superintendent Larry Calhoun said the change will benefit students and teachers. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The number one driver is recruiting and retention of teachers and rewarding the teachers you already have and keeping the best teachers we can on our staff,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Calhoun. Overton resident and long-time educator Stanley Peters said the switch is not the solution to retention. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The more schools that do it, they lose that advantage because there will be more schools going to a four-day week so that advantage will go away, so where do you go next? A three-day week?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Peters. <!--more--> <\/p>\n<p>Overton has joined a growing list of Texas school districts that have adopted a four-day week or are considering it. The Overton school board will vote March 6 to decide whether the district will make the switch. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OVERTON \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Overton ISD hosted its third community meeting about changing to a four-day week. According to our news partner KETK, Superintendent Larry Calhoun said the change will benefit students and teachers. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The number one driver is recruiting and retention of teachers and rewarding the teachers you already have and keeping the best teachers we &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1204271\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Overton ISD takes more input on four-day week<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1204279,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/02\/o-175x81.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Overton ISD takes more input on four-day week","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1204271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-21 18:22:54","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/02\/o-175x81.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Overton ISD takes more input on four-day week","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1204271"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1204277,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204271\/revisions\/1204277"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1204279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1204271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1204271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1204271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}