Maira Rodriguez, a teacher at Ferndale Elementary in Humboldt County, participates in professional learning.
Credit: Joanna Galicha / the Humboldt County Office of Education.
Starting this school year, Fresno Unified is adopting an early release schedule, joining a dozen of the state’s other largest school districts as well as its neighbors in Fresno County who’ve embraced the practice for years.
Now, students enrolled in the state’s third-largest district with nearly 70,000 students will be released about an hour early every Tuesday of a five-day school week. The district’s schools began notifying families in the weeks leading up to the first day this coming Monday.
Many districts utilize early release days each week for teacher and staff professional development, such as training and/or planning.
In Long Beach Unified, the state’s fourth-largest district with around 65,000 students, the…
