KENTUCKY ASSOCIATION
FOR
YEAR ROUND EDUCATION

KAYRE MEMBERSHIP INFORMATION

Year round education centers on reorganizing the school year to provide more continuous learning by breaking up the long summer vacation into shorter, more frequent vacations throughout the year.  It does not eliminate the summer vacation, but reduces it and redistributes it as vacation or intersession time during the school year.  Students attending a year round school go to the same classes and receive the same instruction as students on a traditional calendar.  The year round calendar is organized into instructional periods and vacation weeks that are more evenly balanced across 12 months than the traditional school calendar.  The balanced calendar minimizes the learning loss that occurs during a typical three-month summer vacation.

Single-track YRE provides a balanced calendar for a more continuous period of instruction.  Students and all school personnel follow the same instructional and vacation schedule.  Single-track does not reduce class size, nor does it allow a school to accommodate more students.  The rescheduled vacation is placed throughout the school year into periods called "intersessions", allowing time for remediation and enrichment throughout the school year

Multi-track YRE is used primarily to alleviate overcrowding, although it also incorporates the educational values of single-track YRE, including intersessions. It was designed specifically for schools with a shortage of classroom space. Multi-track avoids double sessions and the extended school day. It also alleviates the need to build costly new buildings with their attendant operating costs. 

Multi-track divides students and teachers into groups, or tracks of approximately the same size. Each track is assigned its own schedule. Teachers and students assigned to a particular track follow the same schedule and are in school and on vacation at the same time. Multi-track creates a "school-within-a-school" concept. 

Example: implementing a four-track year round calendar extends the capacity of a school by 33%. A school with the capacity of 750 students can accommodate 1,000 students, as only three tracks of 250 would be in school at the same time; there would always be one track on vacation or intersession every day of the school year.

Extended Year calendars lengthen the school year substantially, from the usual 180 or so days annually up to 240 days of instruction.

KAYRE OFFICERS (elected 08/05)