Sentences with phrase «extending the school day by»

I get it that this would likely mean extending the school day by 10 or 15 minutes, and that costs money because then the staff need to be paid for a longer day, but this is the dream wish list, right?

Instead of shuttering failing schools, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced a $ 150 million plan Monday for boosting the struggling programs, extending the school day by an hour, adding summer learning opportunities and increasing professional development.

After Hackett was put on the list of persistently struggling schools, educators there extended the school day by 42 minutes to include a daily enrichment period for students to meet with teachers.

An academy chain has dropped its plans to extend the school day by 45 minutes, following protests from parents and teachers.

My childrens academy school has extended the school day by twenty five minutes which has not added any extra lesson as they have just added a form time at the end of the day.

Ferryway is a K - 8 school in its fourth year of Expanded Learning Time (ELT), a grant program overseen by the Massachusetts Department of Education that extends the school day by at least 300 hours.

A new afterschool program extends the school day by three hours for about one - sixth of the school's 600 students.

One such bill is SB 1552 by Altamonte Springs Republican David Simmons which would encourage school turnaround efforts in which districts extend their school days by at least an hour, provide students with wraparound services, or give charter - like autonomy to their principals.

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The parental state, extending the smothering accomplished by Johan's possessive parents, does to him what the parental corporation does to people we know, or the public schools to children, or the machinery of welfare to modern - day paupers.

The findings come after plans by Michael Gove to extend school days and cut holidays were rejected by the body appointed to assess them.

Replacing a 1950's bureaucracy with a 2020 performance organization, we formed the new New York education reform Commission headed by Dick Parsons, they have done extraordinary work; they have called for a full day Pre-K, extending school days and for performance pay.

Michael Gove decided to award all pupils with a permanent after - school detention, forever, by extending the school day.

On gun limits and school safety, the poll showed voters by a 90 percent to 9 percent margin support measures to extend the waiting period for the purchase of firearms up to 10 days, from the current period of up to three days, to allow for more extensive background checks.

Extended day and year, a relentless focus on academic achievement, value - added evaluations for teachers, data - driven decision - making, and others were scooped up by schools impelled to keep up with the Joneses» College Prep.

In an essay signed by U.S. senators Edward Kennedy and Orrin Hatch, they praised Citizen Schools for extending the school day «so students have more time to learn and interact with professionals who will help them connect their learning to a future profession.»

June 25 — School boards: Applications are due for the extended - day learning opportunities program, sponsored by the National School Boards Associations.

School systems would have to raise their annual budgets by an average of about 20 percent in order to respond to three of the major recommendations of the National Commission on Excellence in Education: extending the school day to seven hours, extending the school year to 200 days, and making teachers» starting salaries «market sensitive.&School systems would have to raise their annual budgets by an average of about 20 percent in order to respond to three of the major recommendations of the National Commission on Excellence in Education: extending the school day to seven hours, extending the school year to 200 days, and making teachers» starting salaries «market sensitive.&school day to seven hours, extending the school year to 200 days, and making teachers» starting salaries «market sensitive.&school year to 200 days, and making teachers» starting salaries «market sensitive.»

A pilot project that would extend the school year in two districts to 200 days — making theirs the longest school year in the country — was approved this month by the North Carolina state legislature.

The Houston - based schools have extended days, learning contracts signed by students and parents, school - issued cell phones for teachers, and classrooms bearing the names of colleges — the now - familiar features of what David Whitman dubbed «New Paternalism» schools in his 2008 book Sweating the Small Stuff (see «An Appeal to Authority,» features, Fall 2008).

In its first year as an extended - learning - time school last year, the day at Kuss was expanded by almost two hours.

Future Academies in Pimlico, central London, which was set up by the academies minister Lord Nash and his wife Caroline, announced plans to extend the school day in March 2016.

To be considered for Massachusetts Expanded Learning Time Initiative for struggling schools, applicants had to agree to extend the school year by 25 percent, which they could do by extending the school day.

Key recommendations include: extending the national child measurement programme to also measure fitness as a slim child does not necessarily mean a fit and healthy child, rebranding the «PE & Sport Premium» as the «Physical Activity & PE Premium» to address the core notion of inactivity, and recommending that head teachers take a «whole day» approach to physical activity by engraining it throughout the entire school day.

-- Paul Tough, author of How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character «Dale Russakoff, one of America's great journalists, illuminates one of the country's great problems — the failure of inner city schools — with on - the - ground reporting that extends from the governor's office and fancy philanthropies down (or up) to the small miracles performed every day by dedicated Newark classroom teachers.

As educators have become increasingly aware of the stagnating black / white and Latino / white achievement gaps, schools and districts have committed to addressing those gaps by supporting initiatives that can create equity, such as preschool interventions, extended school days, and summer programs.

- Request by Butte County Office of Education to waive California Code of Regulations, Title 5, Section 3043 (d), which requires a minimum of 20 school days of attendance of four hours each for an extended school year (summer school) for special education students.

District policies discourage using Saturdays, making up the date on Memorial Day is unadvisable and the state's calendar law will not permit extending the school year by a dDay is unadvisable and the state's calendar law will not permit extending the school year by a dayday.

An academy chain established by the schools minister has been forced to drop controversial plans to extend the day for children as young as five after protests from parents and teachers.

In the Senate version, schools that receive poor progress reports for three years would be subject to a series of interventions doled out by the two boards, including new instruction strategies, personnel changes or extending the school day.

Students commit to extend their high school graduation by one year and attend high school and college level courses all day on LCC's campus.

Boasberg said the district has used the SIG dollars allocated for Montbello and for nearby Noel Middle School to launch several smaller school programs, growing them one grade at a time, and to fund a school year that's longer by three weeks and a school day that's extended by an hour in the FNE scSchool to launch several smaller school programs, growing them one grade at a time, and to fund a school year that's longer by three weeks and a school day that's extended by an hour in the FNE scschool programs, growing them one grade at a time, and to fund a school year that's longer by three weeks and a school day that's extended by an hour in the FNE scschool year that's longer by three weeks and a school day that's extended by an hour in the FNE scschool day that's extended by an hour in the FNE schools.

Whereas many interventions can impose punitive measures that divide communities, the improvement in student achievement at Kuss has been credited in no small part to longer school days or extended learning time (ELT)-- a reform championed by many school officials, educators, parents, and community leaders.

Posted on February 8, 2016 · Starting this fall, Olfen School District in Central Texas will implement a four - day school week, by extending the hours of each school day and holding tutoring and other activities on daySchool District in Central Texas will implement a four - day school week, by extending the hours of each school day and holding tutoring and other activities on dayschool week, by extending the hours of each school day and holding tutoring and other activities on dayschool day and holding tutoring and other activities on days off.

Either way, school districts should do their best to max out their local levies to the greatest extend permitted by the new law — and then put away as much money as they can in their Rainy Day Fund to protect against the school funding declines that are almost certain to come due to the Levy Swipe Law's reliance on unstable home prices for funding our public schools.

«We are extending the school day and providing schools with the flexibility to build effective teams by allowing teachers and school leaders to make hiring decisions together,» he said.

The Nevada Legislature allocated additional funding to provide all elementary Zoom Schools with the universal half - day preschool, full - day kindergarten and smaller kindergarten class sizes of 21 students maximum per teacher and free summer school programs that extend the school year by 17 days beyond the state - mandated 180 days of instruction.

Unfortunately, many of the most important features of the plan, such as extended learning time in core subjects and a longer school day to include enrichment in art, music, and academic tutoring, were never funded at adequate levels by the state.

The National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, which has risen to prominence with its annual rankings of state charter school laws, sought to measure the «health» of each system, as determined by factors such as the size of charter populations, racial demographics, test scores and the use of «innovative» practices such as extended school days or apprenticeship programs.

and elementary classrooms, a K3 program and extended day K4 and K5 program funded by the Milwaukee Board of School Directors, a diverse student population that enriches the

Other programs for which funding would be eliminated include: a family literacy program at John C. Clark Elementary and Middle School in Hartford; the extended day program at Lincoln - Bassett School in New Haven; and funding for reading instructional supports in some of the state's lowest - performing schools would be cut by $ 250,000.

Many CMO - run schools operate on extended calendars, offering students longer school days and years.57 To establish a strong sense of community and culture of achievement, many grow slowly, building out a single grade at a time.58 And many focus heavily on creating strong relationships between students, teachers, and families by conducting teacher home visits, requiring parents to volunteer at school, and having families, students, and teachers all sign agreements about the expectations of attending the school.57

Subject: Request by four local educational agencies to waive California Code of Regulations, Title 5, Section 3043 (d), which requires a minimum of 20 school days of attendance for an extended school year (summer school) for special education students.

And in a policy shift, the 21st Century Community Learning Centers program could be used to help schools increase learning time, either by extending the school day or the school year.

The relaxed regulations permit schools to extend the school day, use funds in ways not designated by the state, hire teachers for positions other than those for which they are licensed and more.

By partnering mainly with private organizations, they engage a whole new range of actors in providing food and health services, extending the school day, and various other programs geared toward both children and families.

Open schools for Election Day, extended hours for schools for use of facilities by students (electricity, food, heat, internet), where it wouldn't interfere with poll sites.

Because the snapshots show that only 52 percent of students report that they care about doing well in school, ASCD also recommends that schools increase student engagement by offering them an array of extended - day learning activities, and academic credit for internships, service learning and apprenticeships.

25 Special Bonus Stories Included!A Standalone Short Story with No Cliffhanger!When Crag Boulder is sent to Vancouver Island on a special mission the Navy SEAL has no idea that the trip will change his life forever, as well as extending it by several hundred years.In a bar in the northern town of Port Hardy Crag meets Honoria, a girl he was once at school with, who never gave him the time of day.

Even though they're long removed from their schooling days, small business owners can benefit by these sales, which often extend beyond lined notebook paper and Number 2 pencils.

In the first of the two extended conversations that comprise How I Became a Painter, Winkfield (born 1944) reminisces about his student days in Leeds and London in the 1960s, and his early activities as an artist, writer, editor and translator; the second conversation focuses on Winkfield's life after he moved to New York City in 1969, including his decisive return to painting (prompted by the notorious survey of Richard Tuttle's work at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1975) and his various collaborations with poets of the New York School.