Sentences with phrase «implement longer school days»

Some charters implement longer school days, while others implement curricula specifically designed for at - risk students, gifted children, pregnant / parenting teens, juvenile offenders, and more.

NEW YORK — Twenty city public schools will implement longer school days for thousands of high - need students across the city as part of a pilot program this fall, the Department of Education and City Council Speaker Christine Quinn announced Monday.

CPS will create an advisory committee that will recommend how to implement the longer school day.

Schools chief Jean - Claude Brizard upped the ante later in the evening on WTTW's «Chicago Tonight,» saying he would be willing to give elementary school teachers a 2 percent raise this year if it means the district could implement a longer school day this year rather than waiting until next year.

Chicago Public Schools is launching a new website — www.cps.edu/longerday — to get citywide input on how to implement a longer school day.

One of the keys to successfully implementing a longer school day and year, experts said, is planning to ensure that time is used to enrich the curriculum, and not just on more drill - and - kill.

CPS, per state statute, will be required to implement a longer school day, a new teacher evaluation system, and the new Common Core State Standards.

Not exact matches

Meanwhile, Chicago Public Schools officials announced firm plans to pursue a longer school day in the 2012 - 13 school year, by which time state law allows them to implement a longer day whether or not the union agrees.

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Emanuel was going to do bold, concrete things — enact a longer school day and year, implement principal performance bonuses, expand International Baccalaureate (IB) programs, and revamp teacher evaluations — and get them done as quickly and visibly as possible.

And even those educators who are in schools that have successfully implemented ELT initiatives will be the first to issue a warning — a longer school day is not for everyone.

On Friday, the Harvard Law School Library and Duke Law School's J. Michael Goodson Law Library and Center for the Public Domain will present a day - long workshop, Implementing the Durham Statement: Best Practices for Open Access Law Journals.

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