photo courtesy Georgia Department of Education
Middle Georgia's Peach County was the first school system in the state to adopt a four day week. School days are longer because classes are not held on Monday's. Officials say they're getting up to three calls a day from other systems to see how it's going.
Jim O'Shields is with Peach County Schools. He says they will save about 900-thousand dollars on utilities and transportation. But savings in one area were a surprise.
"One of the really amazing things that we've been really proud of is we've saved 130-thousand on substitute teaching."
O'Shields says kids are behaving better as well. Disciplinary hearings are down by 50-percent.
