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Show Notes

A Colorado School District has decided to adopt a four-day school schedule due to budget concerns. This ultimately affects the students. But is there some benefit to implementing this change?

Along with discussing shorter school weeks, we also discuss Betsy DeVos’s plan to use federal funds to purchase guns for schools and whether or not that is the best use of federal funding.

Full show transcript found here. 

What We Discuss in This Episode:

• How this Colorado School District is changing its school week schedule
• What certain school districts do on snow days
• Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos’s plan to use federal funding to purchase guns for schools
• Should federal funds be used to purchase guns when there are other more pressing school concerns that require funding?
• School Safety Bill passed by Congress to educate students and teachers about warning signs for gun violence
• Focusing on improving the curriculum and providing technology is great but how are guns considered useful?
• What we can learn from other countries when it comes to increased gun presence

Resources Mentioned:

Article about Colorado's new changes. 

Article about DeVos's plan.