By Ryan Blackburn
Athens Banner-Herald
October 6, 2010
A state law passed last year relaxed a requirement that students attend school for 180 days, and instead allows schools to make up the time by lengthening each school day.
Every year, schools are expected to meet stricter academic performance benchmarks, but only have a limited amount of time to prepare students so that they might pass.
"I don't think anyone could argue that if we had more time with kids that we could do more," Clarke County School District Superintendent Philip Lanoue said Tuesday.
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