Shorter school year is wrong way to go - MontereyHerald.com ::
"We do not have any magic solutions for the Salinas schools, no quick fixes, though we do believe that administrators there and elsewhere must look even harder at sports and other extracurricular activities before taking any more money out of the classrooms.
What we do have is concern that eliminating days of classroom instruction, even while the educational bureaucracy is putting more and more emphasis on test scores, could irreversibly speed the public schools into a downward spiral."
"We do not have any magic solutions for the Salinas schools, no quick fixes, though we do believe that administrators there and elsewhere must look even harder at sports and other extracurricular activities before taking any more money out of the classrooms.
What we do have is concern that eliminating days of classroom instruction, even while the educational bureaucracy is putting more and more emphasis on test scores, could irreversibly speed the public schools into a downward spiral."