Sentences with phrase «longer school days say»

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 budgets.

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Let's say you are a school teacher and one day you decided that we never landed on the moon and no longer accepted the codes of conduct you signed on the day of your hiring and just say heck with that I'm going to do my own thing.

Since we no longer start the school day with a prayer or saying the pledge of alliance why should there be a Muslim holiday added to the school calendar??

I believe she is refering to the very Vocal Churches and Christians who have for 30 years been hollaring and screamin about the issues of prayer in public schools abortions and the anti- gay verbage we been hearing for so long... nearly every day somthing is beign said on these issues you must be mr. van winkle..

The days are long but the years are short, they always tell you about parenting — and oh boy, sometimes * those * days are really, really long — but what they don't say is that you'll blink once, maybe twice, and all of a sudden your tiny newborn baby will be going to school.

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.

In rejecting an arbitrator's report Wednesday that recommended a healthy pay hike, the Chicago Teachers Union indicated it will push for a deal that gives members greater job security and a say in how the longer school day plays out next year.

A longer school day would simply cut into the after school time many teachers use to grade papers, create lesson plans or confer with parents or students, Lewis said.

Despite severe cost cutting, scores of layoffs and wholesale restructuring last year, Chicago Public Schools faces a budget deficit estimated at $ 600 million to $ 700 million in 2013, with the cost of a longer school day still unknown, officials said.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel began pushing for a longer school day while he was on the campaign trail, saying Chicago's school day is the shortest in the nation when compared to public school systems in nine other large cities.

«We think that's entirely too long,» said Tricia Obester, a spokeswoman for Public Voice, the Washington - based consumer health organization that long has campaigned for improvements in the nation's school lunch programs, which feed about 25 million children a day.

«I think teachers have gotten vilified lately,» said Sposato, a Chicago firefighter who supports a longer school day.

«The big problem is this started as a political football when our 4 percent raise was denied us and then (longer school days) was kind of crammed down our throats,» said Lewis after the meetings.

«Yes, we fully support a better, smarter school day for our children, but teachers are now being asked to work 29 percent longer for only a 2 percent pay increase,» Union President Karen Lewis said today in a released statement.

Lewis has said that the union wants to make sure a longer day is «a better school day.»

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De Blasio said he'd use the money to make the school day longer, expand summer school, and to boost science and technology offerings.

«The proposal that I laid out in the room just now is a 10 percent increase in year one, followed by a 3 percent increase in year two, with health insurance contributions and a longer school day,» Kuzma said.

Lhota's top priorities, he said, would include improving education with the introduction of new teaching methods, more tablets and a conversation on longer school days and years, creating jobs and maintaining public safety and quality of life.

«The root causes are that we reach our children too late, that we don't keep them in school long enough each day, that we don't make sure that the very best teachers stay in the teaching profession, that we don't engage our parents in a systematic way to help uplift their children,» he said.

«If you long for those high school days of being part of a team or are intrigued every time an emergency vehicle passes by, this is the time to get off your best intentions and check out your local volunteer fire department,» said Erie County Commissioner of Emergency Services Dan Neaverth Jr. «We provide the training, equipment and camaraderie.

«Adolescents are trying to figure out who they are now, who they want to be when they grow up and are at school in a learning environment all day long,» says Shors.

Susan Redline, MD, one of the study authors and a professor of sleep medicine at Harvard Medical School, in Boston, says that going to bed and waking up at the same time each day, avoiding alcohol and tobacco before bedtime, and other good «sleep hygiene» can help people sleep longer, and probably more deeply.

, or even embarrassing (of course you wore white pants to school that day), but a new study published in the journal BMC Medicine says there are links between major reproductive events in a woman's life and her long - term health.

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As Reville says, «I envision a time when many schools will operate on a longer day, but I also see us changing the boundaries of school to include the world of internships and afterschool opportunities.

05, principal of KIPP Ascend, a charter school in Chicago, are just as important as academics, which is why all 66 KIPP schools across the country operate on longer days — her school from 7:25 a.m. until 5 p.m. «Expanded learning time provides more time for students to work on academic skills, but also other skills that are as equally important to develop their sense of self — the arts or a language, for instance,» she says.

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Martel, the long - time social studies teacher, says credit - recovery classes ran 82 hours per quarter at his school compared to 125 hours for classes held during the school day, and that teachers were told not to give homework.

«The children need more academic time; even though it's a longer school day, the kids get tired in the afternoon and are not as productive,» said Muldrew.

Concerned that teachers had been putting in long hours because of new requirements, the principal of Raymond Park Middle School in Indianapolis, Indiana, set up a room in the school for chair massages one day, said teacher DeborahSchool in Indianapolis, Indiana, set up a room in the school for chair massages one day, said teacher Deborahschool for chair massages one day, said teacher Deborah Bova.

The girl shrank sullenly into her hooded sweatshirt and said she'd been «too tired» to come to school one day the previous week because she had had to watch a three - year - old niece who «screamed all night long.»

Although her KIPP teachers are strict and «tell our mothers and fathers if we do well,» Nkafu says, she doesn't mind that or the longer school day.

Although the longer school day initially sounded daunting to Giovanni, he says that he soon became accustomed to it.

But school officials are reviewing the policy, and may revise it to allow students to carry cell phones, as long as the devices are turned off during the school day, said Marge Feinberg, a spokeswoman for the district.

For that, says Fine and others, schools need to think about restructuring the school day, creating longer classes, and allowing time for sessions in which students and their teachers get to know one another and tackle academic and personal issues.

Initially, parents and teachers were concerned about the longer school day, said Arnold of Fort Pitt.

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.

We looked at charter schools and saw success with longer days, said Chris Gabrieli, chairman and co-founder of Massachusetts 2020.

Interest sparked, says Cowan, «when we told them about our longer school day, from 7:30 AM to 5 PM, Saturday classes, and four more weeks of school in the summer, time we'd use to improve their children's skills and prepare them for college.

Many do not know that a preschool program, whether it's in a dedicated preschool or a through long day care, provides the foundation for your children's future health, happiness, growth, development and learning achievements at school and in life,» said Mrs Williams.

Noelle, when you say longer term for districts abd states looking at / relaxing / modifying the structure of the school day / calendar, in your opinion how long?

«I have usually two to three hours of math during my school day,» says Aidan Fryling, a 6th grader in public school on Long Island.

Expanded learning opportunities, such as «inter-sessions,» longer school days, after - school programs, and longer school years, should be used to help disadvantaged students not only in cities but also in rural areas, where students from low - income families are even less likely to complete high school, says a report from the Center for American Progress, a Washington - based...

Education Secretary Nicky Morgan, while announcing the bill, said «we think a day spent in a failing school is a day too long when children's education is at stake».

«A lot of the charter schools are concentrated in urban neighborhoods and believe that a longer school year or school day is just necessary for the student population they serve,» said Peter Murphy, vice president of New York Charter Schools Resource schools are concentrated in urban neighborhoods and believe that a longer school year or school day is just necessary for the student population they serve,» said Peter Murphy, vice president of New York Charter Schools Resource Schools Resource Center.

Those are the same rules from which charter schools are exempt, a policy supporters say allows charters to flourish with longer school days, a focus on teacher merit instead of seniority, and other innovations.

Parents might have seen Cheatham as a scapegoat in an ill - conceived «reform» scheme, but a labor negotiator for the Chicago Public Schools said it was Cheatham who helped devise controversial plans for both a longer day and to use student test scores in teacher performance evaluations.

About two dozen schools adopted a longer school - day schedule, she said, and the city has invested an extra $ 5 million in making schools more fun, through extracurricular activities, arts, more sports and field trips.

Appearing on national media when the Education and Adoption Bill was unveiled on Wednesday, Ms Morgan said: «We think a day spent in a failing school is a day too long when their education is at stake.»