The mid-August start has created a few other oddities to the calendar, including an unbalanced
number of instructional days in the semesters, with the fist semester having 79 days and the second semester 101.
Question: Can charter schools reduce
the number of instructional days they offer from 175 to 170 and still receive full apportionment?
However, OSSE finds that
the number of instructional days suspended students miss increases steadily by grade: more than half of suspensions for students below fifth grade are for less than two days, but most suspensions given to students in older grades are typically between two and five days, with an increasing proportion of longer suspensions (six to ten days) through the end of high school.
Perhaps the biggest shift giving leeway to the adoption of a four - day school week is that an increasing number of states have passed legislation giving schools the flexibility to substitute
the number of instructional days for instructional hours.
It isn't about better teacher quality or the low
number of instructional days.
If you change
the number of instructional days / hours as stipulated in your charter contract, you will need to seek Charter School Board approval.
The real answer is that schools have been increasing
the number of instructional days recently, but only the number of days prior to the administration of assessments.
A simple and transparent way to do this is for state report cards, which inform parents about school outcomes and summarize the information on AYP status, to include information about
the number of instructional days at test date as well as the total number of instructional days for the year.
Because some districts were affected while others were not, he was also able to provide unusually convincing evidence on the effect of changes in
the number of instructional days.
Our studies use variation from one year to the next in snow or
the number of instructional days cancelled due to bad weather to explain changes in each school's test scores over time.
Perhaps the best evidence comes from a recent study in Minnesota, which estimated that increasing
the number of instructional days from 175 to 200 would cost close to $ 1,000 per student, in a state where the median per - pupil expenditure is about $ 9,000.
Not exact matches
«With tardy students entering the school
day at abnormal times and potentially missing a large
number of cumulative
instructional hours, teachers must divert their attention away from regular teaching time and towards remediation,» he says.
Count how many
instructional days are available, and assign a set
number of days to cover each unit based on the level
of rigor and the quantity
of material to be covered.
However, each member
of the
instructional staff and each other employee is entitled to earn no more than 1
day of sick leave times the
number of months
of employment during the year
of employment.
There shall be no limit on the
number of days of sick leave which a member
of the
instructional staff or an educational support employee may accrue, except that at least one - half
of this cumulative leave must be established within the district granting such leave.
A sample
of 36 Great Expectation model elementary schools were matched with 556 Oklahoma non-Great Expectations elementary schools based on the following variables: ethnicity, free and reduced lunch eligibility, school size, average
number of days students absent, percent
of parents attending conferences, percent
of teachers with advanced degrees, percent passing third grade reading test, district population size, unemployment rate, average household income, teachers per administrator, percent
of student's in special education,
instructional support budget, and district percent passing Algebra I. Five years
of pass rates on third grade reading and third grade math state exams were examined.
The «Bell to Bell Entire School
Day» is the total number of hours in the school day — NOT just instructional ti
Day» is the total
number of hours in the school
day — NOT just instructional ti
day — NOT just
instructional time.
This ranks behind 30 other states in
number of days and 35 states in
number of instructional classroom hours.
By staggering teacher breaks, Generation Schools Network expands the
instructional year for students without increasing the
number of working
days for teachers.26