ANAHEIM : 3 Schools Added to Year-Round Project

Three more schools in the city will begin operating year-round, joining six others now in their first year of that schedule.

The school board voted unanimously last week to open Adelaide Price, Paul Revere and Alexander J. Stoddard elementary schools year-round, enabling the district to enroll up to 33% more students each year.

“We’re very, very happy,” said Elizabeth Schuck, district coordinator of the program and principal at Stoddard. “We’ve got these buildings, and if we can use them better than we do, we should do it. That’s like any business.”

The three schools begin the cycle of 12 weeks on and four weeks off July 1. All students will have one month off during the summer.

Eventually all but three or four schools in the 21-school district will go on the year-round schedule.

Most teachers favor year-round education because it allows continuity in learning, and time is not wasted at the beginning of the school year reviewing what was lost during three months of summer vacation.

Teachers have found that the continuity is especially helpful for students learning English.

However, some parents from Stoddard school complained to the board that the schedule makes it difficult for families who have children in more than one school district to coordinate vacations and after-school care.

The district has held various meetings with parents in both English and Spanish to inform them of the changes. It will continue to conduct such meetings until the new schedules begin next summer.