{"id":1207939,"date":"2023-03-07T07:28:48","date_gmt":"2023-03-07T13:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1207939"},"modified":"2023-03-08T09:37:09","modified_gmt":"2023-03-08T15:37:09","slug":"overton-isd-joins-list-of-schools-switching-to-four-day-school-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1207939","title":{"rendered":"Overton ISD joins list of schools switching to four day school week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1207940\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/03\/OVERTONISD-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>OVERTON &#8212; Overton ISD is the latest of many East Texas schools to transition to a four-day school week for the upcoming school year. According to our news partner KETK, in a 5-1 vote, the school board approved the switch at their meeting on Monday evening, making the district the 21st to make the change in East Texas. With the addition of Overton ISD, at the start of the 2023-2024 school year, there will be more than 15,000 students in East Texas operating on a four-day school week. The district previously held three meetings to discuss the possibility of a four-day school week with the community, giving them an opportunity to bring their questions and concerns to the school board.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Regardless of people\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s perspective before the vote, I believe this will happen because the community is great. If you were for it or against it, let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s put that behind us. We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve made the decision, adopt a can-do attitude and let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s figure it out. I think it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s always a great day to be a mustang,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Larry Calhoun, Overton ISD Superintendent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OVERTON &#8212; Overton ISD is the latest of many East Texas schools to transition to a four-day school week for the upcoming school year. According to our news partner KETK, in a 5-1 vote, the school board approved the switch at their meeting on Monday evening, making the district the 21st to make the change &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1207939\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Overton ISD joins list of schools switching to four day school week<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":1207942,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/03\/OVERTONISD-150x150.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Overton ISD joins list of schools switching to four day school week","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1207939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-09 07:13:38","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\/03\/OVERTONISD-150x150.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Overton ISD joins list of schools switching to four day school week","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207939","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\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1207939"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1207941,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207939\/revisions\/1207941"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1207942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1207939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1207939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1207939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}