Jefferson County Public Schools Administrative Task Force on Inequities of Year-round Education. Inequities of Year-round Education. Jefferson County Public Schools Administrative Task Force, 1982. The Task Force was established to define problems related to year- round schools in Jefferson County, and to recommend possible solutions. The paper discusses the inequities of year-round education as it affects students, school staff, administrators, and school facilities, suggests means for correction, and the estimated cost of the recommended action.
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This article focuses on the many problems facing Albertans if year-round schooling were to be adopted. Four suggestions for alternatives are split sessions, distance education, cooperation with building developers and modular, moveable school buildings which can be recycled as the school population changes. A Year-Round Education Mandate. In retort, the author stresses that Dr. Matheson fails to acknowlege the differences between school situations in California and in Alberta, and ignores the four proposed alternatives to year-round schooling. He challenges Dr. Matheson to provide hard evidence that year-round schooling is educationally superior to the traditional school year.