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Schools go to four-day school week, make lots of other cuts thanks to high fuel prices

Photo by iboy_daniel. Licensed under Creative Commons license 2.0. All of those reduced-fuel-use school buses (examples here and here) can't help some school systems continue on as normal in the current economy. Thanks to high fuel prices - among other reasons - the four-day "work" week that is gaining currency at businesses nationwide is spreading to at least 15 more school districts across the U.S., according to a new article by the AP. Last year, the AP says, around 100 districts dropped a day. For one school system highlighted in the ... Read more →

Living in suburbia now even worse Sebastian Blanco

Photo by pincusvt. Licensed under Creative Commons license 2.0. Well, now we have proof that the New York Times is biased against flyover country. I mean, only a left-wing maniac would dare point ...

Schools go to four-day school week, make lots of other cuts thanks to high fuel prices 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Living in suburbia now even worse 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Photo by pincusvt. Licensed under Creative Commons license 2.0. Well, now we have proof that the New York Times is biased against flyover country. I mean, only a left-wing maniac would dare point out that living out in God's Country (away from those sinful cities) isn't all it's cracked up to be. ...

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