Sentences with phrase «hours than regular schools»

In that state, a survey of alternative education a few years ago revealed substandard facilities and programs that offered fewer class hours than regular schools did.

Not exact matches

This for a place that promised longer days (an hour more than the regular public schools), an extra 25 days of school per academic year, tough discipline, uniforms, and rigorous academic standards.

Rather than fix the regular day school, Ladd would have the United States pour its energy into programs that would extend the days and hours that children are in school.

We have seen urban public schools successfully adopt many charter school «secrets,» including the nine - hour school day (e.g., United for Success Academies in Oakland); a rigorous, standard curriculum (e.g., the more than a dozen Chicago public schools that offer the International Baccalaureate); merit pay (e.g., the Washington, D.C., system); and the regular use of teacher video in professional development and evaluation (e.g., the Houston system, which was using video in this way as early as the 1980s).

The curriculum will be intense: classes will run from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., five days a week - an hour and a half longer than regular city schools.

Excluding before care and after care, students attend school and receive instruction for longer than 8 hours per day on a regular basis.

Erik Kass, the district's assistant superintendent for business services, pointed out that teachers would have a longer school day and year in Madison Prep than in a regular district school — 8.75 hours a day for 227 days versus 7.5 hours a day for 192 days.