Sentences with phrase «fund longer school days»

In addition to building professional learning time into the existing school day, an increasing number of schools fund longer school days and years, and devote a portion of that time to teacher - led professional learning.

Government plans to fund longer school days to enable children more access to sports activities has been binned.

And for secondary schools we're going to fund longer school days for those that want to offer their pupils a wider range of activities, including extra sport.

Not exact matches

Widely affirmed proposals call for the restructure of low - performing schools, more emphasis on the basics, safer classrooms, more rigorous graduation standards, periodic measurement of progress through some kind of standardized tests, longer days and year - round schooling, decentralization into smaller learning communities and greater freedom for those smaller units, smaller classes, better - qualified teachers and improved salaries, more parental input and more equitable funding.

A long time ago I heard something that fits this to a «t»: «All will be right in the world the day schools are fully funded and the military has to hold a bake sale to buy a tank.»

We felt it was important enough for the kids» health and ability to focus that they not be hyped up on sugar and caffeine all day long, but it did come at a financial cost, and we did not have the cushion of community dollars to fall back on; some schools lost extra curricular funding because of it and have yet to fully recover.

They are the single largest and longest - standing funder of the school food space, and we are proud to have had both FoodCorps and School Food Focus seeded by funding from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation in our earlyschool food space, and we are proud to have had both FoodCorps and School Food Focus seeded by funding from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation in our earlySchool Food Focus seeded by funding from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation in our early days.

Cuomo's budget provides 4.4 percent more aid to schools and would fund his proposal from the State of the State address for longer school days and school years.

«If we were to have that funding, we would be able to have longer school days, summer learning, hiring more teachers, expanding our technical and science education, as well as career and technological education, and arts education programming.»

That outcome was stunning given the speaker's long identification with the LGBT community — as the 1991 campaign manager and later chief of staff to Tom Duane, the Council's first out gay member; as head of the New York City Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project; as a demonstrator arrested year after year in protests against the exclusion of openly gay participants in Manhattan's St. Patrick's Day Parade; and as a Council member who pursued a range of initiatives in support of the community, including a school anti-bullying law, a requirement that the city only do businesses with contractors with anti-discrimination policies in place, and funding for LGBT homeless youth services, senior services, and the capital needs of the LGBT Community Center.

HGSE Grads Talk About Why Today's Kids Need Full - Service Education Last year, when Maryland Congressman Steny Hoyer introduced landmark legislation to provide funding for full - service community schools, he became part of a nationwide movement aimed at making children's school days longer, more numerous, and filled with services once provided solely through other industries.

Malcolm Trobe, interim general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, commented on the longer school day saying: «While we welcome any additional funding for schools, the reality is that the government has already made savings by requiring schools to pay increased employer National Insurance and pension contributions from existing buSchool and College Leaders, commented on the longer school day saying: «While we welcome any additional funding for schools, the reality is that the government has already made savings by requiring schools to pay increased employer National Insurance and pension contributions from existing buschool day saying: «While we welcome any additional funding for schools, the reality is that the government has already made savings by requiring schools to pay increased employer National Insurance and pension contributions from existing budgets.

All schools will have considerable autonomy — including control over staffing, the authority to set their own budgets, and the freedom to offer extended school days or longer school years — but will be held accountable for results, and funds will follow students as they choose the schools that best meet their needs.

Charter schools receive public funding but, unlike public schools, employ mostly nonunion teachers and have autonomy in school districts, which allows them to set their own conditions, such as longer school days.

Schools raise extra funds through government grants and community donations, which allows them to spend on average an additional $ 1,100 to $ 1,500 per pupil above and beyond usual school costs for longer school days, weeks and years and for annual field trips and costly facilities.

At least a quarter of secondary schools will be given funds to run a longer day, Chancellor George Osborne will announce today.

ESSA also contains other funding streams for longer school days, including through the 21st Century Community Learning Centers program, Student Support and Academic Enrichment Grants, and the newly authorized Promise Neighborhoods and Full - Service Community Schools programs under Title IV.

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.

Then two years ago, then - chancellor George Osborne provided funding for at least a quarter of schools to run longer school days to allow extracurricular activities, though this was scrapped in favour of Justine Greening's capital scheme to build new sports facilities.

Class sizes will go up substantially and the longer school day, which Mayor Emanuel instituted last year, has lost its funding but not its extra 90 minutes.

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.

At the federal level, the Department of Education could promote the use of ESSA funding for expanded school schedules, encouraging high - poverty schools to use funds from Title I, Part A to pay for longer school days as part of a larger effort to boost student achievement.

Congress could also increase funding for programs — such as Promise Neighborhoods, 21st Century Community Learning Centers, and AmeriCorps — that provide students with longer school days and access to after - school programs.

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