Sentences with phrase «short school day»

Due to the short school day, between say 8.30 am and 4 pm, a school needs the most power in the middle hours of the day.

Many of them extended Germany's notoriously short school day and strove to boost teacher quality.

My kids have a short school day and little homework, yet Finnish students earn some of the highest scores of any nation on international tests.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel and district administrators who have attacked Chicago as having the shortest school day among the nation's 10 largest cities have begun touting this as an accomplishment: CPS officials say the 7.5 - hour day will tie Chicago with Philadelphia as «the leader among the largest cities in instructional time» for...

«Having the shortest school day in the nation puts teachers and students at a disadvantage and it's time that we provided both with the tools they need to drive student success in the classroom,» said CPS CEO Jean - Claude Brizard.

In a system that already has one of the shortest school days (and school years) in the country, students would lose a whopping six months of accrued instruction by the time they graduate from elementary school.

But that would mean low - income schools would be further disadvantaged by having shorter school days.

CPS also has one of the shortest school days in the nation.

Thus the for - profits may use more part - time personnel (forgoing staff benefits), less - experienced teachers whose salaries are lower, larger class sizes, or shorter school days.

According to Andrew Malone, principal of Success's Harlem Central middle school, «There are things that everyone can do, even within the [teachers union] contract and the shorter school day... the quality of the literature, the way that we work with teachers, the curricula themselves.»

Pomeroy had a shorter school day and less flexibility than Summit charter schools did.

During her six months in the United States, the 9th grader says, she has had fewer academic subjects, shorter school days, and less homework than she did in Albania.

Voters of color in Boston also expressed dissatisfaction with the city's shortest school day of any major city in the country.

«Parent and Teacher» pays dues to the CTU that fights for the shortest school day and shortest school year possible.

In an effort to extend what is one of the nation's shortest school days, Chicago Public Schools plans to add 90 minutes to the schedules of 15 elementary schools using online courses and nonteachers, sources said.

Recent brain research has shown youth have different sleep needs than adults, while it's been popular to say that students in the US have less «seat time» than students around the world (as a matter of fact, this is incorrect: while students in some countries have more days of school than the US, most of those countries have shorter school days that actually results in less seat time).

We have successfully transitioned from one of the shortest school days and school years in the country to a full school day and year, resulting in a remarkable two and a half years of additional learning from kindergarten to 12th grade.

Not exact matches

Seventeen lives were cut drastically short at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Wednesday, February 14th, Valentine's Day.

In the seven short days since a 19 - year - old gunman killed 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, teenagers who survived the...

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«A New Hope» is a brutally dark anthem about the days after Columbine, only a few short blocks from the bands practice studio, and it is disclosure into the thoughts of high school students.

There's a sort of shared anticipation in the air as the days grow shorter, the breezes get cooler, and folks everywhere begin new journeys together — a new school year for teachers and students, new jobs for recent grads, new projects at work, new Sunday school classes at church, new shows on TV, a new session of Congress in Washington, new routines, new people, new information, new schedules.

The problem with trying to serve all religious holidays, is that the students will have shorter summer breaks as they will have to make up all the missed school days due to recognizing every religion out there... because that's what will have to happen to please everyone.

This time of year is bittersweet in many ways: many of you already have children who have gone back to school (ours start after Labor Day), this is when the days start getting shorter, and the abundance of fresh fruit & vegetables that summer provides starts to wane.

The kids have swim team practice most days until 6:15 pm, and the time I have to get dinner ready and feed the family is even shorter than when they're in school.

There are leaves starting to fall in the yard, kids are back in school, the monarchs are moving through, fall flowers are starting to open, the days are getting shorter.

Just because the days are getting shorter and the kids are almost (or, are already, as is the case for most of you) back to school, that doesn't mean it's...

My older sister is completing her summer internship next week, and then in a short three days she will be returning to school to complete her final, senior year in university.

Each day of the golf school includes 3 hours of instruction and video on the range and short game area, plus 9 - hole playing lesson.

The kids are back in school and the days are getting shorter, so it must mean fall has started!

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.

I always noticed that my daughter would start giving me problems a few short weeks right before school, and I know it's her way of detaching from me to make it easier on me and her when she is gone all day.

«Now that we have the Cruisin» Café I drive that during the school year — we take it to schools and our nutrition educator teaches a short nutrition lesson — and during the summer I drive it every day when we give away meals.

Your child may have met kids who have shorter work days in these alternate schooling formats.

To make lunch longer, something else has to be shorter — or the school day needs to be lengthened.

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.

And while the fall season can be filled with school - related hustle and bustle, it also means shorter days.

If it isn't longer school days, shorter hols, rote learning, over loaded curriculum etc, etc it's now trying to make us all use school dinners because the Tories can't be arsed to put more money into it.

They're learning to budget (one son even tracks his spending in a little notebook), to save (shiny, new electronics are expensive), and even to delay gratification in order to reach some short - term goal (they'll often make their lunch for school every day, banking the allotment we've given them for the cafeteria).

Other kids get up for school at 7:20 a.m., typical school day prep, get irritated I have to remind them to brush their teeth again, get irritated the 7 - year - old still doesn't understand she can't wear shorts in winter, get them out the door, take care of the dogs, and wait for the baby to wake up (assuming she didn't wake up at the incessant nagging to brush teeth, or dogs running through the house excited to go outside, of course).

I need to factor in more short bursts at other times in the day as well though as I know he can sometimes feel pushed out when I'm constantly running round after his little sister all day and he has to go school.

In just a few short years, your child will go from spending most of his time with family and close friends to spending large chunk of his day interacting, learning, and playing with other kids at school.

Over the past years, school days have gotten longer, while recess and time spent * just moving * has become shorter.

In short — fewer hungry kids and more happy, healthy ones who can get the most out of their school day.

Short days during school, longer days in summer and on breaks.

- Camping trips singing in the car, being there through all their childhood illnesses and hurts; emotional and physical ones, first days of school, last days of school, dinners that flopped (I am remembering the failed salmon loaf recipe), pants that were too short, too long, too old, too loose, too tight or too great to take off to wash, friends and then girlfriends / boyfriends, soccer and scouts and blue hair dye and laughter and tears and all the things that make up a life LM

Some schools are closing leaving well kids home on short notice for days on end.

Today is an off - school day for her but she still came out sporting the babylegs... this time to keep her arms worm with a short sleeve tee.

A journalism symposium at the Annenberg School of Communications at USC is the excuse, but it's really a chance to bounce around San Francisco and LA for a few short days (note: Southwest will get you from one to the other for under $ 100 roundtrip).

A journalism symposium at the Annenberg School of Communications at USC is the excuse, but it's really a chance to bounce around San Francisco and LA for a few short days (note: Southwest will get you from one to...