The Litchfield Park Elementary School District discussed the possibility of implementing an early release or a four-day school week to help with teacher burnout.
The board voted it down in previous years, citing unsavory timing with the COVID-19 pandemic or lackluster student performance. During Litchfield's school board meeting March 7, board member Kimberly Moran questioned if it was a good time to implement an early release.
“I know when this topic came up a couple of years ago, we unanimously voted it down because we were not in a place at that point in time to make that decision in the best interest of students,” she said. “So I'm not sure that we have definitive data for that right now.”
