Year-round schools have long been thought to potentially improve academics by reducing the length of summer break. Research nationally has been spotty on how effective that calendar type is toward ...

Tens of thousands of Wake County students no longer will need to return from winter break on a Friday for just one day of class. Traditional-calendar schools had been scheduled to return from ...

The delayed opening doesn’t impact traditional-calendar schools, which already had Tuesday off as a teacher workday. The two-hour delay will affect tens of thousands of Wake County students who ...