San Diego Unified board members voted Tuesday to change the schedule structure at three more high schools next year.<\/p>\n
Madison, Canyon Hills and Mira Mesa high schools will transition to the new 4×4 block schedule for the 2026-27 school year. With this schedule, a student takes four classes per semester for a total of eight per school year, instead of the traditional six classes for an entire year.<\/p>\n
San Diego Unified’s Superintendent Fabiola Bagula said this makes time for more electives or college-level courses, as well as more opportunities for students to retake or make up courses to stay on track for graduation.<\/p>\n
\u201cHigh school doesn’t look like high school when I was there,\u201d she said. \u201cThere’s a lot of really beautiful opportunities. I’ve seen children graduate from high school, not only with a diploma but with even an AA degree.\u201d<\/p>\n
In Robert Lovato\u2019s 10th grade biology class, students on the 4×4 schedule will get an hour and a half, compared to an hour, for labs.<\/p>\n
Tenth-grader Leilani Hernandez says she would love to take four classes a semester.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn high school, you know, we’re cut out to only six per year, but there’s so many other classes,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd I realized like, \u2018Oh, I should have taken that,\u2019 but because of our schedule, it’s so limited. But we get two extra classes.\u201d<\/p>\n
Students can even graduate early if they choose. Teachers predict better attendance and better focus if students have less classes to juggle every day.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it’s just a great opportunity for our kids,\u201d Lovato said. \u201cChange is good.\u201d<\/p>\n
The board planned to vote on this transition in late September but got pushback from some community members who felt this process was rushed and didn\u2019t have enough research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Diego Unified board members voted Tuesday to change the schedule structure at three more high schools next…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":305343,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,3549,37947,7264,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-305342","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-san-diego","12":"tag-san-diego-unified-school-district","13":"tag-sandiego","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-united-states-of-america","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115378209746646242","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}