c	School Calendar Debates: Year Round Calendars Summary of Findings in the January 2002 Report Published by the Education Policy Research Unit, Education Policy Studies Laboratory, College of Education, Arizona State University. A"The original proposals to operate year-round schools (YRS) came from a consideration of the economics of school construction rather than any consideration of learning gains." School districts around the county have dropped year-round schooling due to the increased cost of the program verses the traditional school calendar. MORE! Mountain Of Evidence The Case Against Year Round Education In Georgia Public education in Georgia has moved steadily toward non-traditional school calendars in recent years, a trend that has shown no benefits to student learning, and which has hurt the economic health of the state.MORE! Do They Improve Academic Performance? For most of the nation's 44 million school-children, summer vacations begin in June. However, more than 1.7 million students will remain in classes a few weeks longer and get a shorter vacation break. They attend schools with "year-round education" (YRE) programs designed to improve academic achievement and/or ease overcrowding. YRE programs rearrange the school schedule into several instructional time blocks separated by shorter and more frequent vacation breaks. In most YRE schedules, the number of days in the school year remains the same as in traditional calendars. MORE!