Sentences with phrase «include lengthening the school day»

The initiatives outlined in the plan include lengthening the school day and year, implementation of a statewide teacher contract, consolidation of school districts, and increasing needs - based financial aid in the 2010 budget.

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Conference notes that this growing phenomenon includes: (i) management - led working practices which have not been workload impact assessed; (ii) coercive practices such as insidious threats to career progression; (iii) the de facto lengthening of the school day through the expectation that teachers will deliver extra lessons outside of the normal timetable; (iv) the loss of lunch breaks for teachers and students alike; (v) the bullying of teachers into running «booster» and revision classes after school, at weekends and during holiday periods and (vi) the consequential compromising of the teacher's work / life balance.

Other examples include low - performing schools that have lengthened their school day in an effort to improve, and the longer school days, weeks, and years in some charter schools.

Other options include lengthening of the school day and / or school year or more selective hiring and better training of teachers in those schools with high percentages of students in need of accelerated progress.

Election - to - Work agreements have been used in a variety of school districts around the nation, including in New Haven, to promote pilot projects that lengthen the school day or year or outline duties and obligations that administrators and teachers have beyond those in the standard contract.