Sentences with phrase «make extended school days»

Even as policy makers are considering ways to make extended school days, an extended school year, after - school tutoring and multi-tiered interventions financially possible, school leaders must help teachers make maximum use of the time they already have.

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The picking season is extending hopefully to the end of September this year so we will probably make a visit after school one day.

As Houston - area schools continue to recover from Hurricane Harvey, some students still have not returned to their classrooms while still others face extended school days to make up missed time.

The obvious solution is to build nutrition and sustainability into food contracts, give principals more autonomy to make smart decisions, and extend the school day so that our fine, fine teachers have enough time to give our kids what they need.

Individuals and businesses will be able to receive a total of $ 20 million in tax credits for up to 75 percent of their donations made to public schools and not - for - profits that support public schools» educational programs, including Pre-Kindergarten and extended - day programs.

The money would be used to make technological advances, improve teaching, turn around the lowest performing schools and extend the school day, according to the Daily News.

Extended day and year, a relentless focus on academic achievement, value - added evaluations for teachers, data - driven decision - making, and others were scooped up by schools impelled to keep up with the Joneses» College Prep.

School systems would have to raise their annual budgets by an average of about 20 percent in order to respond to three of the major recommendations of the National Commission on Excellence in Education: extending the school day to seven hours, extending the school year to 200 days, and making teachers» starting salaries «market sensitive.&School systems would have to raise their annual budgets by an average of about 20 percent in order to respond to three of the major recommendations of the National Commission on Excellence in Education: extending the school day to seven hours, extending the school year to 200 days, and making teachers» starting salaries «market sensitive.&school day to seven hours, extending the school year to 200 days, and making teachers» starting salaries «market sensitive.&school year to 200 days, and making teachers» starting salaries «market sensitive.»

Some school districts are making up snow days online instead of extending the school year in June.

A pilot project that would extend the school year in two districts to 200 days — making theirs the longest school year in the country — was approved this month by the North Carolina state legislature.

District policies discourage using Saturdays, making up the date on Memorial Day is unadvisable and the state's calendar law will not permit extending the school year by a dDay is unadvisable and the state's calendar law will not permit extending the school year by a dayday.

In fact, the improvements Mayor de Blasio is making in struggling schools are exactly what many charters are already doing: extended school days, professional development, community involvement.

Starting in the 2016 — 17 school year, eligibility extended to public school students in grades K — 3 and students entering grades K — 12 for the first time in Ohio who attend a school that received a grade of D or F for making progress in improving literacy in grades K — 3 and that did not receive an A grade for making progress in improving literacy in grades K — 3 in the most recent published rating prior to the first day of July of the school year for which the student seeks a scholarship.

Modifying the collective bargaining agreement, re-defining work days and extending school are just some of the adjustments that SKEA made to lead the way for change.

Additional cancelations will require extending the school day or year to make up the time.

«We are extending the school day and providing schools with the flexibility to build effective teams by allowing teachers and school leaders to make hiring decisions together,» he said.

The bill also gives Chicago Mayor - elect Rahm Emanuel the power to extend his city's school day and makes it easier to dismiss teachers deemed ineffective based on student achievement.

His new attacks on public education include taking $ 17.1 million out of traditional public schools, which will curtail extended day and summer programs in needy school districts, make universal preschool impossible, not fund priority districts as promised and at less than last year, and limit aid for transportation of students.

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In addition, we held the first of our annual summer leadership retreats, an opportunity extended to all of the faculty to spend four days developing a clear, shared vision of the school's turnaround plan, unpacking the implications for each of us as teacher leaders, and collaborating to strengthen the leadership skills we would need to make it happen.

When school is canceled due to severe weather, that time has to be made up somehow, and schools typically make up those days by extending the school year through breaks.

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