ROCK SPRINGS — The Sweetwater County School District No. 1 Alternative Schedule Task Force is recommending a four-day school week for the 2021-2022 school year.

The recommendation and survey results will go before the District No. 1 Board of Trustees at a special meeting Tuesday, April 28. The board is scheduled to host a public meeting at 5 pm, where a presentation on the alternative schedules will take place.

Following the 5 pm meeting, a special board meeting will take place at 6 pm, where the board will make a decision on which schedule will be selected for the 2021-2022 school year.

A task force of 48 people including school board trustees, administrators, teachers, staff, parents, and students narrowed a list of nine different options down to three over the past several months.

Out of the three remaining options, Option 2 was favored more in the feedback the Task Force received from district employees and the public.

The three options are:

Option 1

District students attend school 4 days a week. In addition to the student school days, district staff would attend one designated student day off and two 1/2 days on the designated student days off for collaboration, professional development, and/or planning each month.

Option 2

District students attend school 4 days a week. In addition to the student school days, district staff would attend every other designated student day off for collaboration, professional development, and/or planning each month.

Option 3

District students attend school 5 days a week, however, on 1 designated day, elementary students would dismiss from school two hours early and secondary students would arrive to school two hours later than their start time. District staff would have this late start/early release time for collaboration, professional development, and/or planning each week.

Below is a link that will take you to the presentation that has all of the survey data from both the Public Survey, Staff Survey, and the Alternative Schedule Task Force recommendation to the Board of Trustees, documents with data broke down into sub groups, a link to research articles, and a link for public feedback for the special board meeting. https://www.sweetwater1.org/alternative_schedule_feed_back

Public comments are being accepted until 4 pm, Tuesday, April 28.