Longer school year.

• Position: STATELINE - School calendar changes - Brief article

Minnesota school superintendents are pressing lawmakers to add five weeks to the school calendar over the next four years, mostly by slimming down summer break. A 200-day school year is their goal. Minnesota children now spend 170 to 175 days in school. "We have one of the shortest school years to be found anywhere, in this country and beyond our borders," says White Bear Lake Superintendent Ted Blaesing. "We're stuck in a school calendar that was designed decades ago for another purpose." At least 35 states have...