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| At the beginning of school year 2001-02, 10 Alabama school districts with a total of 45 schools were using a year-round calendar, according to the National Association FOR Year-Round Education. Six of those districts implemented the year-round calendar district wide. An analysis of Stanford test scores in the five school districts that have been on a year-round calendar for at least three years finds the year-round calendar failed to deliver on promises of academic improvement. Most scores in most subject areas declined in the five districts since the switch to a year-round calendar. Test scores for one of those districts, Alexander City, can be found on the "What's New" page of this website. | ||
| ANNISTON CITY SCHOOLS - A committee was appointed in 1997 to consider a switch to a year-round calendar, but by the 2001-02 school year no Anniston schools were YR.--Anniston Star, July 29, 1998; NAYRE directory |
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| BIRMINGHAM - Since the early 1990s, the district had been considering YRS, but finally shelved the idea in response to parent objections. Birmingham had been incorrectly listed as a YRS district beginning with the 1993-94 NAYRE directory through the 1996-97 directory. --2001 telephone interview with school official. The Birmingham News, Oct. 10, 1997 |
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| BUTLER COUNTY - Board members voted against YRS in 1996.--Montgomery Advertiser 1998 |
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| DECATUR -A proposed switch to YRS got nowhere. As of 2000-01, no schools were YR. --Decatur Daily, Nov. 20, 1997; NAYRE |
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| GUNTERSVILLE - In 1997, the Guntersville City Board of Education backed off a proposal for YRS, citing cost factors. As of 2000-01, no schools were YR. --The Huntsville Times, Dec. 17, 1997; NAYRE |
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| HARTSELLE - YRS was proposed in 1997, but as of 2000-01 school year, no schools were YR. --Decatur Daily, Dec. 18, 1997, NAYRE |
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| HOUSTON COUNTY - Dothan dropped one of its elementary YRS, but seven remained as of 2001. --NAYRE |
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| MARSHALL COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION. - A proposal in 1997 would have included recruiting neighboring counties. As of 2000-01, no Marshall schools were using a YR calendar.. --Huntsville Times, Aug. 12, 1997; NAYRE |
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| PIEDMONT CITY SCHOOLS - A committee studied YRS, but as of the 2001-02 school year, no Piedmont schools were YR.--Anniston Star, July 29, 1998; NAYRE directory. |
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| SCOTTSBORO - The system began a three-year evaluation of YRS in 1997, but as of the 2001-02 school year, no schools were year-round.--The Huntsville Times, Dec. 17, 1997; NAYRE directory. |
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| CIBECUE SCHOOL DISTRICT - Experiment begun in one school in 1991 was dropped -- NAYRE |
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| HUMBOLDT - Three schools have dropped the YR calendar since experiments began in 1983. One YR school remains.--NAYRE |
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| MESA - The one school that tried YR in the 1990s dropped it. --NAYRE |
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| MOBILE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL DISTRICT - The one school that tried YR in the 1990s dropped it--NAYRE | 1 | TAR |
| ROOSEVELT, PHOENIX - Experiments with YR begun in the 1970s dropped. --NAYRE; Glines | -- | TAR |
| PHOENIX - Various accounts say YR school was tried then dropped in the 1970s and later in the 1990s. --NAYRE; Glines | -- | TAR |
| SCOTTSDALE UNIFIED - Three schools tried and dropped YR. The experiments began in 1995. Following parent objections to early school start dates, the district pushed start date to mid-August, though parents had pushed for a date closer to Labor day. --"Schools OK a later start," Anne Ryman, The Arizona Republic, Oct. 8, 2003; NAYRE | -- | TAR |
| SUNNYSIDE, Tucson - Experiment tried in the 1970s was dropped. In 1995, a single YR school program was reinstated. -- NAYRE | -- | TAR |
| TRIBAL, Coolidge - The experiment in a single school begun in 1993 was dropped. --NAYRE | 1 | TAR |
| YUMA - Nine Yuma Elementary District 1 schools dropped the YR calendar in response to parent objections. The calendar had been in place since the early 1990s as a means to improve education, but the district never produced data to show any academic benefit of a YR calendar. --The Yuma Daily Sun, July 31, 1997 |
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| YUMA UNION HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 70 - Parents and teachers turned thumbs down to year-round school at Cibola High School. Roadblocks to continuing education for teachers and summer job interference were among the reasons cited. --The Yuma Daily Sun, Jan. 28, 1994 |
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| EDITOR'S
NOTE: The trend in California is a return to the traditional school
year, after decades of using a multitrack year-round calendar to
address overcrowding problems and using a single track year-round
calendar so families with children attending different schools could
keep them on the same track. See: Trend turns toward traditional schedule, by Joe Tone, The Record, July 13, 2004 at: Also See: — ACLU Suit on California Schools Near Resolution by Duke Helfand and Cara Mia DiMassa, Los Angeles Times, July 7, 2004 at: http://www.latimes.com/news/education/la-me-williams10jul10,1,3881810.story?coll=la-news-learning Ten percent of the nation's 651 school districts listed in the 2000-2001 NAYRE directory represented those California school districts with a single YRS program in place. State law at the time required that at least one school in a district be year-round in order for that district to receive state funds for future construction. Over the last three decades, California has housed as much as 80 percent of the nation's YRS population largely because of severe overcrowding problems that are addressed with a multi-track schedule. As this incomplete list reflects, many California districts drop the year-round calendar after new facilities are built. |
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| ABC, Cerritos - Experiment in the 1970s dropped. --NAYRE; Glines | -- | TAR |
| ALUM ROCK UNION ELEMENTARY - Experiments begun in 1992 dropped. --NAYRE | 6 | TAR |
| ARCADIA - District began experimenting with YR in 1988, then dropped YR in the high school. Two schools remained YR in 2000. --NAYRE | 1 | TAR |
| BANNING UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT - Experiments begun in 1990 were dropped. No YR schools remain as of 2000. -- NAYRE | 2 | TAR |
| BASS LAKE, Oakhurst - At least three schools dropped YR after trying it, the earliest in 1990. One remained YR as of 2000. --NAYRE | 3 | TAR |
| BEAR VALLEY - The district has been in and out of YRS several times, beginning with experiments in the 1970s. In 1991, YRS was revived in several schools, then dropped in four. By 2000, seven schools were still YR. --NAYRE; Glines | 4 | TAR |
| BERRYESSA, San Jose - Experiments in four schools, which began as early as 1973, were later all dropped. --NAYRE; Glines | 4 | TAR |
| BURTON ELEMENTARY, Porterville - Experiments began in 1980s with two schools dropping the calendar. Only one remained YR by 2000. --NAYRE | 2 | TAR |
| CABRILLO, Half Moon Bay - Experiments begun in 1970s dropped. --NAYRE; Glines | -- | TAR |
| CAJON VALLEY, El Cajon - Experiments begun in 1973 and eventually spread to 17 schools were all later dropped.--NAYRE; Glines | 17 | TAR |
| CARLSBAD CITY - The district dabbled in YRS in the 1970s, then abandoned the calendar. --NAYRE; Glines | -- | TAR |
| CARMEL UNIFIED - The one school that tried YR in 1989 later dropped it. --NAYRE | 1 | TAR |
| CENTRAL ELEMENTARY, Rancho Cucamonga - YRS experiments begun in 1990s later dropped in three schools. --NAYRE | 3 | TAR |
| CENTRAL UNION - YRS trial begun in 1992 in one high school and one middle dropped. --NAYRE | 2 | TAR |
| CENTRALIA ELEMENTARY, Buena Park - the single school that began YR in 1993 dropped it. --NAYRE | 1 | TAR |
| CHINO VALLEY - Tried YRS in the 1970s in two schools, dropped it, then revived YRS which was in 17 schools as of 2000. --NAYRE; Glines | 2 | TAR |
| CLAREMONT - Tried YR in one school beginning in 1973, then dropped it.--NAYRE; Glines | 1 | TAR |
| COLUMBIA ELEMENTARY - Tried YR in one school beginning in 1996, then dropped it. --NAYRE | 1 | TAR |
| CONSTELLATION COMMUNITY - Tried YR in one school beginning in 1995, then dropped it. --NAYRE | 1 | TAR |
| CORONA NORCO - Tried YR in the 1970s and later dropped it. The failed experiments included two high schools. YR was reinstated in the 1990s, with 24 schools gone YR by 2000. --NAYRE; Glines | -- | TAR |
| COTATI-ROHNERT, Rohnert Park - YR school begun in 1973 spread to eight schools, which all later dropped it. --NAYRE; Glines | 8 | TAR |
| CUTLER-OROSI UNIFIED - Tried YR beginning in 1993, and later dropped calendar in all schools. --NAYRE | 3 | TAR |
| CYPRESS - Dropped all YR schools that began in 1970s, then resumed a year-round program in 1993 in a single school. --NAYRE; Glines | -- | TAR |
| EL MONTE ELEMENTARY - Tried in three schools beginning in 1983 and later dropped--NAYRE | -- | TAR |
| EL RANCHO, Pic Rivera - Tried YR in 1970s and dropped. --NAYRE; Glines | -- | TAR |
| ESCONDIDO - Tried YR in 1970s, then dropped it but resumed the calendar in 1990. Three schools were YR in 2000.--NAYRE | -- | TAR |
| ETIWANDA ELEMENTARY -Began YR in 1992, then dropped it the two experimental schools. --NAYRE | 2 | TAR |
| EXETER UNION ELEMENTARY - Began YR in the 1990s, but dropped the calendar for its middle school. Three schools were YR in 2000. --NAYRE | 1 | TAR |
| EXETER UNION HIGH - Three schools have dropped YR since implementing it middle and high schools beginning in 1997. Two schools remained YR as of 2000. --NAYRE | 3 | TAR |
| FALLBROOK UNION DISTRICT - Tried YR beginning 1991, then dropped in two experimental schools. -NAYRE | 2 | TAR |
| FARMERSVILLE ELEMENTARY - Began YR in 1991 then dropped.--NAYRE | 3 | TAR |
| FOLSOM-CORDOVA, Folsom - YR began in 1991, and at one time eight schools were YR. All had dropped the calendar by 2000. --NAYRE | 8 | TAR |
| FRESNO - Numbers of YR schools seesawed since experiments began in the 1970s. At least two elementary and a high school tried YR and dropped it. But as of 2000, 26 schools were on YR. --NAYRE | 3 | TAR |
| FOUNTAIN VALLEY - Tried YR in 1973 in one school, then dropped it.--NAYRE; Glines | 1 | TAR |
| GOLDEN PLAINS UNIFIED - Tried YR in a single school in 1988 and dropped it.--NAYRE | 1 | TAR |
| HACIENDA-LAPUENTE - Began YR in 1986 and since dropped it in a high school and middle school. One school remained YR in 2000.--NAYRE | 2 | TAR |
| HANFORD ELEMENTARY - Began YR in 1992, then dropped in all four schools, including two middle and one high school.--NAYRE | 4 | TAR |
| HESPERIA UNIFIED - Began YR in 1973, but dropped it in three high schools and two middle schools. As of 2000, 11 schools were still YR.--NAYRE | 5 | TAR |
| JURUPA, Riverside - Tried YR in 1970s, dropped it; then again in 1993 and dropped it.--NAYRE; Glines | -- | TAR |
| KERMAN UNIFIED - Began YR in 1990, then dropped it in all schools. --NAYRE | 3 | TAR |
| KINGS CANYON JOINT - Began YR in 1988, dropped it in the high school. Four schools remained YR in 2000. --NAYRE | 1 | TAR |
| KONOCTI UNIFIED, Clearlake - Began YR in 1990s, and dropped in all 8 schools. --NAYRE | 8 | TAR |
| LAKESIDE, San Diego County - Tried and dropped YR in the 1970s. --NAYRE; Glines | -- | TAR |
| LAKESIDE, Kings County - Tried and dropped YR in the 1970s. --NAYRE; Glines | -- | TAR |
| LAKESIDE, Hanford - Tried and dropped YR in the 1970s. --NAYRE; Glines | -- | TAR |
| LAKE TAHOE - Tried and dropped YR in the 1970s. --NAYRE; Glines | -- | TAR |
| LEMOORE UNION ELEMENTARY - Began YR in 1992, then dropped in all schools. --NAYRE | -- | TAR |
| LIBERTY, Visalia - Tried and dropped YR in the 1970s. --NAYRE; Glines | -- | TAR |
| LINDSAY UNIFIED - Began YR in 1992 then dropped it in all three schools.--NAYRE | 3 | TAR |
| LODI UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT - Began YR in 1985, dropped in in one middle school, but 38 schools were YR as of 2000. However, by 2003, the district was moving away from the YR schedule to a modified tradtional year "as quicly as funding and classrom space allows, said Robert Gire, coordinator of child welfare and attendance....The only reason a campus might remain on year-round now is that the enrollment numbers won;t allow the switch back," --See: "Mateca Unified to re-examine year-round" by Abbie Dutcher, The Record, Sept. 28, 2003.; NAYRE | 1 | TAR |
| LONG BEACH -Began YR in 1988, dropped one YR high school, but 25 schools were YR as of 2000.--NAYRE | 1 | TAR |
| LOS ANGELES - Began YR in 1974 to address overcrowding. Various media accounts and information from NAYRE directories indicate that as many as 546 schools had either tried and dropped YR or when given the option to choose, voted to return to a traditional school year. As of 2000, there were 225 LA schools using a YR schedule, and the numbers were expected to mushroom because of severe overcrowding. --NAYRE; Los Angeles Daily News, June 8, 1993 | 546 | TAR |
| LOS BANOS UNIFIED - Began YR primarily for overcrowding reasons in 1985, but dropped it from the middle school when new school construction enabled a return to a traditional calendar, according to Philip Wedlake Jr., the assistant supt., educational services. Overcrowding may again force the middle school back on a multi-track calendar, Wedlake said. As of the 2000-01 school year, 4 elementary schools remained YR.--NAYRE, Philip Wedlake, Assit. Supt. Los Banos Unified | 1 | TAR |
| LYNWOOD - Tried YR twice and dropped it entirely both times. The first round began in 1976, and the two YR schools were later dropped. The second round began in 1991, but as of 2000, all six schools (including a high school and middle school) had returned to a traditional school year. --NAYRE; Glines | 8 | TAR |
| MADERA UNIFIED - BEGAN YR in 1976 but dropped it in the single school. (Revived YR in 1985 to address overcrowding, and 9 schools were YR in 2001-02 school year). --Glines, NAYRE | 1 | TAR |
| MANTECA UNIFIED - As new schools open in the 2004-05 school year, the district planned to return a number of schools placed on a YR calendar in 2000-01 because of school overcrowding to a traditional calendar. --"District mulls year-round education," Aaron Swarts, San Joaqui Bureau, Tracey News, Oct. 17, 2003 | -- | TAR |
| MARIPOSA COUNTY UNIFIED - Began YR in 1988,then dropped it. --NAYRE | 2 | TAR |
| MARYSVILLE JOINT UNIFIED - Began YR in 1992, then dropped it in all three schools.--NAYRE | 3 | TAR |
| MILLBRAE - Began YR in 1970s then dropped it. --Glines | -- | TAR |
| MILPITAS - Began YR in 1970s then dropped it.--Glines | -- | TAR |
| MOJAVI UNIFIED - Began YR in 1992, dropped it in one school, but three remained YR as of 2000.--NAYRE | 1 | TAR |
| MORONGO VALLEY, 29 Palms - The district's YR school numbers seesawed in the 1970s, but as of 2000 there were no more YR schools.--Glines; NAYRE | -- | TAR |
| NEVADA UNION Grass Valley - The district's YR school numbers seesawed in the 1970s, then all were dropped; then YR was revived again in 1985 with 2 schools on YR as of 2000.--Glines; NAYRE | -- | TAR |
| OAKDALE JOINT UNION, Oakdale - Began YR in 1990, dropped one middle school, but three YR schools remained as of 2000.--NAYRE | 1 | TAR |
| OAKLAND UNIFIED, Oakland - Began YR in 1973, dropped it in three schools, but nine YR elementary schools remain as of 2000..--NAYRE | 3 | TAR |
| OCEANVIEW, Huntington Beach - Tried YR in a single school in 1972, then dropped it--Glines; NAYRE | 1 | TAR |
| OLD ADOBE, Petuluma - Tried YR in 1970s and dropped it. --Glines | -- | TAR |
| PAJARO VALLEY, Watsonville - The district has been in and out of YR. It dropped all schools begun in the 1970s, then resumed YR in 1992, with six schools on YR as of 2000.--NAYRE; Glines | -- | TAR |
| PARLIER UNIFIED - Began YR in 1990, then dropped it.--NAYRE | 2 | TAR |
| PETALUMA JOIN UNION HIGH - Began YR in 1995 then dropped it in all three schools.--NAYRE | 3 | TAR |
| PITTSBURG UNIFIED - Began YR in 1994 in one school then dropped it.--NAYRE | 2 | TAR |
| ROMONA UNIFIED -Began YR in 1985 and dropped it.--NAYRE | 1 | TAR |
| REDDING ELEMENTARY - Began YR in 1997 then dropped it. --NAYRE | 1 | TAR |
| REDLAND UNIFIED - Began YR in 1989 then dropped two YR middle schools, but eight schools remained YR as of 2000.--NAYRE | 2 | TAR |
| RIALTO UNIFIED - Began YR in 1981, but dropped it in one middle school. As of 1981, 17 schools remained on a YR calendar.--NAYRE | 1 | TAR |
| RICHMOND UNIFIED - Began YR in 1984 and later dropped it in all four schools.--NAYRE | 4 | TAR |
| RIM OF THE WORLD, Lake Arrowhead - This school district has been in and out of YRS. It dropped the program begun in the 1970s, then resumed it in five schools in the 1990s and dropped those. By 2000, no schools in the district were YR.--Glines; NAYRE | 5-plus | TAR |
| SACRAMENTO - Tried YR in 1966 in one high school but dropped it--Hermansen and Gove. | 1 | TAR |
| SADDLEBACK VALLEY, Mission Viejo - Began YR in 1988, and dropped it.--NAYRE | 1 | TAR |
| SALINAS CITY ELEMENTARY - Began YR in 1990, then dropped one school but three remained YR as of 2000.--NAYRE | 1 | TAR |
| SAN JUAN, Carmichael - Began YR in 1974, dropped it in six schools but five remained YR by 2000.--Glines; NAYRE | 6 | TAR |
| SAN LUIS COASTAL, Obispo - Tried YR in 1984 and dropped it.--Glines; NAYRE | 1 | TAR |
| SAN MARCOS UNIFIED - Began YR in 1993, dropped one school but 12 remained YR as of 2000. --NAYRE | 1 | TAR |
| SAN RITA, Salinas - Began YR in 1978 and later dropped its two YR schools.--Glines; NAYRE | 2 | TAR |
| SANTEE - Began YR in one school in 1972 and dropped it.--Glines; NAYRE | 1 | TAR |
| SAUGUS - Began YR in 1975 and later dropped it from all 10 schools.--Glines; NAYRE | 10 | TAR |
| SOLEDAD - Began YR in 1977, but dropped it.--Glines; NAYRE | 2 | TAR |
| SOUTHERN HUMBOLDT JOINT UNIFIED - Began YR in 1990 and dropped it.--NAYRE | 1 | TAR |
| SOUTHSIDE, Hollister - Began YR in 1976 and dropped its sole YR school.--Glines; NAYRE | 1 | TAR |
| SOUTH WHITTIER, Whittier - Began YR in the 1970s and dropped it.--Glines; NAYRE | 1 | TAR |
| SNOWLINE JOINT UNIFIED, Phelan - Began YR in 1990 then dropped it. --NAYRE | 1 | TAR |
| STRATHMORE UNION ELEMENTARY - Began YR in 1992, then dropped it.--NAYRE | 1 | TAR |
| SULPHER SPRINGS - District tired YR in the 1970s, dropped it and then revived it in 1991 in one school which remained YR as of 2000.--Glines; NAYRE | -- | TAR |
| TEHACHAPI UNIFIED - Began YR in 1989 but dropped it in one school. Four schools remained YR as of 2000. --NAYRE | 1 | TAR |
| TEMECULA VALLEY UNIFIED - Began YR in 1994, but later dropped in all 17 schools. --NAYRE | 17 | TAR |
| TERRA BELLA UNION ELEMENTARY - Tried YR in 1992 and dropped it.--NAYRE | 1 | TAR |
| TRANQUILITY UNION HIGH - Tried YR in one school in 1988 and dropped it.--NAYRE | 1 | TAR |
| TULARE CITY ELEMENTARY - Began YR in 1990 and later dropped it in all schools.--NAYRE | 3 | TAR |
| UKIAH UNIFIED - Began YR in 1990 and later dropped all four YR schools.--NAYRE | 4 | TAR |
| VACAVILLE - Began YR in 1970s and dropped one school but two remained as of 2000.--NAYRE; Glines | 1 | TAR |
| VALLEJO - Began YR in 1973, but dropped it from 6 schools and then added others. As of 2000, there were14 school still on YR--NAYRE; Glines | 6 | TAR |
| VENTURA UNIFIED - Began YR in 1976, but dropped it in the middle school. As of 2000, 5 schools remained YR. --NAYRE | 1 | TAR |
| VISTA UNIFIED - The district tried YR in the 1970s, dropped all YR schools but then resumed YR in 1990. As of 2000, 21 schools were YR --NAYRE; Glines | -- | TAR |
| WEST CONTRA COSTA UNIFIED - Began YR in 1984, but dropped one elementary. Four schools remained YR as of 2000. --NAYRE | 1 | TAR |
| WILLIAM HART, Newhall - Began YR in 1970s but dropped all.--NAYRE | -- | TAR |
| WINTON ELEMENTARY - Began YR in 1992, but all schools later dropped it.--NAYRE | 3 | TAR |
| WOODLAKE UNION ELEMENTARY - Began YR in 1992 but all schools later dropped it.--NAYRE | 3 | TAR |
| YUBA CITY - YR school enrollment has seesawed since the district first used the calendar in the 1970s. After all school dropped it, the district resumed YR in 1992. Since then, at least one middle school has dropped YR, but five other schools remained on the calendar as of 2000..--NAYRE | -- | TAR |
| YUCAIPA, Calimesa Unified - The district had seven schools on YR as of 2000, but dropped one high school from the calendar.--NAYRE | 1 | TAR |
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| ADAMS COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT 12 - The board dropped a proposal to use a YR calendar to address overcrowding in response to parent opposition.--Delivery Post, Jan. 5, 1996, Denver; NAYRE | -- | CAR |
| AURORA - Having used a YR calendar since 1987 mostly to address overcrowding, the district's YRS numbers shrank from a high of nine YRS schools to one elementary YRS by 2000-2001 in response to parent objections. Middle school parents began lobbying against YRS in 1997, presenting the school board a petition with 1,000 signatures demanding return to a traditional school year. --NAYRE 2001 & The Denver Post, June 4, 1997 |
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| BOULDER VALLEY SCHOOL DISTRICT - In 1993, parents persuaded school board members of the state's fourth largest school district that YRS was not a solution for overcrowding. --Montose Daily Press, June 11, 1997 |
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| CENTER SCHOOL BOARD OF EDUCATION - Proposals for YRS that emerged after two staff members attended a NAYRE convention in 1997 had not materialized by 2001. --The Valley Courier and NAYRE |
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| CHERRY CREEK - The number of schools has seesawed since Cherry Creek began the YRS in 1972. Though some schools remain on YR as of 2001, at least 6 have tried it and dropped it over the years.--NAYRE & MEDIA |
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| COLORADO SPRINGS -Colorado tried YRS in 1973, then dropped it in eight schools, but revived it in 1996 to address overcrowding. Two schools remained YR as of 2000. - NAYRE |
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| CRESTED BUTTE - In 1999, Crested Butte school officials voted to start school after labor Day, putting an end to the possibility for a year-round calendar that had been proposed for many years. A parent survey supported the post-Labor Day start. --Pilot, Crested Butte, Co., March 12, 1999; NAYRE |
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| FALCON - Program begun in 1991 was dropped. --NAYRE |
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| GUNNISON - In 1999, Gunnison school officials voted for an official post-Labor Day school start, putting an ed to proposals for YRS. --The Chronicle Pilot, March 12, 1999; NAYRE |
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| JEFFERSON COUNTY - Thirteen years of year-round school, begun in 1973 to address overcrowding, produced no educational gains or test score improvements. The negative experience with year-round schools resulted in passage of two bond issues to build more schools, one in 1985 for $88 million and one for $325 million in 1992. --The Denver Post, February 12, 1995; The Osceola (Florida) Sentinel, Jan 31, 1993 |
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| MESA COUNTY VALLEY, GRAND JUNCTION - Program begun in 1981 was abandoned. --NAYRE |
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| SCHOOL DISTRICT 51, MESA COUNTY - Fruita Monument High School, converted to a YRS in 1995 because of overcrowding, returned to a traditional year in 1998 after a bond referendum for new school facilities was approved. --Montrose Daily Press, June 11, 1997 |
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| MONTROSE COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT RE1J- The school board, responding to parent pressure, voted 5-1 against using YR to address overcrowding --MONTROSE DAILY PRESS, JANUARY 29, 1998 |
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| THOMPSON SCHOOL DISTRICT - A committee studied converting schools to YR after staff members returned from a NAYRE convention in 1997, but none in the district had gone YR by 2001. --Daily Reporter-Herald, March 28,1997 and NAYRE |
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| BAY COUNTY - The modified calendar, "poorly explained and incompletely researched in Bay County," according to columnist Steve Bornhoft, got support from parents in a 8 of 15 schools surveyed. Three tried it in 1995, but all dropped it. --The News Herald, Panama City, December 4, 1994 |
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| BREVARD COUNTY - The YR experimental schools begun in the 1970s were abandoned. In 1991, the county again tried YR in a few schools but two have since returned to a traditional school year. --Glines and NAYRE directories |
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| BROWARD COUNTY - Because of parent objections, the YR school movement has been contained to a few schools since it was introduced in 1993. Three schools have switched back to a traditional year, including a middle school. --NAYRE directories |
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| CITRUS COUNTY - Began YR in 1996, but dropped it in two schools. One school remained YR in 2000.--NAYRE | 2 | TAR |
| CLAY COUNTY - A three-year plan to try YRS single track in five schools was scrapped after the first year because of parent complaints about the adverse impact on family life and summer traditions. --The Baltimore Sun, April 2, 1995 |
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| COLLIER COUNTY - Began YR in 1992, but by 2000 no schools remained on YR.--Media, NAYRE | -- | TAR |
| DADE COUNTY - Dropped all YRS, first implemented in 1969. A task force considered YRS again in 1994, but rejected the idea and deemed it "too disruptive." In 1993, Dave gave schools the option to use YR, but two years later, not one school had expressed an interest. --The Miami Herald , September 30, 1995 |
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| DUVAL COUNTY - Seven years after opening its first YRS, the school board voted in March 1998 to return all remaining YRS to a traditional calendar. effects on achievement were inconclusive. The program was unpopular with parents. Many multi-track schools reported declines in enrollment, as parents switched children to a traditional calendar school or a private school. Parents cited as reasons for the switch child care problems, hardships for working moms, disruption to family life, especially when siblings were on different tracks. In the three years from 1994 to 1996, the number of YRS in Florida dropped from a high of 168 to just 60. Responding to questions about the high rate of rejection, NAYRE's executive director Charles Ballinger said: "Florida's one of those strange anomalies we can't quite figure out." -The Florida Times-Union , Sept. 30, 1995, April 1, 1997, March 18, 1998; Mandarin news & St. Johns River Pilot, Aug. 28, 1997 |
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TAR |