Sentences with phrase «institute longer school days»

In the past year, Emanuel stripped teachers of a 4 percent pay raise, and his effort to institute longer school days while sidestepping the union contract has infuriated union members.

Emanuel charged him with the task of instituting a longer school day and year, which turned out to be a lengthy and arduous process that drew significant opposition from the CTU as well as many parents.

Chicago Teachers Union officials want to make their case directly to aldermen to counter the blitz Mayor Rahm Emanuel's administration has undertaken to institute a longer school day.

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To receive a grant, the school must institute a longer day that includes a combination of core academic instruction, with longer periods devoted to subjects like math, science and language arts, enrichment opportunities, and time for teacher collaboration and planning.

NYCLA also offers a comprehensive, year - long professional development program for turnaround school leaders, which incorporates coaching with a five - day summer institute and ongoing professional learning sessions for principals and their leadership teams.

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.

Meanwhile, apparently the «Longer School Day Committee» has yet to meet, which makes this rush to institute the extra minutes TODAY (insert Mayor Rahm's 4.5 - finger - fist - on - podium bang here) seem even more irresponsible.