in the indpls. area ips and alot of the township schools are now starting a some what year round schedule. i drive for ips and sched. for this year is 9 wks. on and 3 wks. off with 2 mos. off for the summer. their reasoning behind this is that the students actually lose alot of what they have learned with to much time off during the summer. they are still doing the same amount of school days, 180 i believe.