A decade ago, there were 278,000 students in 349 year-round schools.

New Jersey is the 39th state to open year-round schools.

The proposal for year-round schools could help those students, officials have said.

Even now a quarter of all students, mostly black and Hispanic, are already in 93 year-round schools.

The plan is to have a year-round, 11-hour-a-day school that will serve people who work in a nearby business.

Since so many parents work and cannot afford to provide their children with educational opportunities in summer, she said, year-round school makes perfect sense.

During the program, they attend school year-round to include summer terms.

Several different studies have been conducted to learn more about the attitudes of students who attend year-round schools.

Students who attend year-round schools, but are not in school at the time of the assessment.

But the concept of year-round school here is not necessarily dead.