{"id":463782,"date":"2016-03-13T08:12:19","date_gmt":"2016-03-13T13:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=463782"},"modified":"2016-03-14T16:00:02","modified_gmt":"2016-03-14T21:00:02","slug":"union-hill-moves-to-four-day-school-week-in-2016-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=463782","title":{"rendered":"Union Hill Moves to Four-Day School Week in 2016-17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/03\/union-hill_1457815590042_7504452_ver1.0.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-463783\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/03\/union-hill_1457815590042_7504452_ver1.0-200x122.jpg\" alt=\"union hill_1457815590042_7504452_ver1.0\" width=\"200\" height=\"122\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-463783\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/03\/union-hill_1457815590042_7504452_ver1.0-200x122.jpg 200w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/03\/union-hill_1457815590042_7504452_ver1.0-768x470.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/03\/union-hill_1457815590042_7504452_ver1.0-450x275.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/03\/union-hill_1457815590042_7504452_ver1.0.jpg 932w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>BETTIE \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Union Hill ISD, located in rural Upshur County, is making history as being the first pre-K through 12th grade school district in Texas to adopt a four-day instructional school week.  KETK and the Longview News-Journal report the new schedule will take effect next school year.  Gay Colbert is excited, saying it will give her grandchildren more enrichment opportunities.  &#8220;(The new four-day schedule) gives an avenue for students to do tutoring in the morning and also enrichment programs that they may not have the chance to take otherwise,&#8221; said Colbert, president of the Union Hill ISD athletic booster club and grandparent to four Union Hill students.  Olfen ISD, a kindergarten-to eighth-grade school 25 miles outside San Angelo, became the first district in the state to adopt the modified calendar. <!--more--> <\/p>\n<p>Texas school districts have historically operated with a format that required them to offer at least 180 instructional days, but with the passage of House Bill 2610, schools are now required to adhere to a certain amount of minutes for instruction instead of days. That change allows districts to add flexibility to the school year by adding opportunities for enrichment.  Union Hill&#8217;s 2016-17 calendar, which trustees approved in February, will offer students more than 76,000 minutes of instruction within 159 school days, just above the state&#8217;s yearly minimum of 75,600 minutes of instruction, according to Superintendent Troy Batts.  <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What makes our calendar unique is that we will be able to offer students the optional enrichment days,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We will be utilizing a four-day instructional week, for the most part, with tutorial and enrichment opportunities on selected Fridays.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BETTIE \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Union Hill ISD, located in rural Upshur County, is making history as being the first pre-K through 12th grade school district in Texas to adopt a four-day instructional school week. KETK and the Longview News-Journal report the new schedule will take effect next school year. Gay Colbert is excited, saying it will give &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=463782\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Union Hill Moves to Four-Day School Week in 2016-17<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":463783,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-463782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-18 07:48:07","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463782","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\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=463782"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":463793,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463782\/revisions\/463793"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/463783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=463782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=463782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=463782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}