Article: Tucker students say farewell

Article: How would you like a longer school year?: ; Kids' corner
Charleston Gazette;  March 10, 2000 ;     402 words ...If the school year was extended to the end of June, it will take...save deer week. By Caleb Jones Extending the school year would change my life. I would be very mad if they made the school year last longer into the summer. I would be in...

Article: Import item: a stretch school year Panel is told students need nonstop education to keep pace with world
The Boston Globe;  April 17, 1991 ;     700+ words ......state senator's proposal to lengthen the school year by 40 days -- an effort, its sponsor...D-Cambridge) and supporters of a longer school year, including Mayor Flynn and Gov. Weld...a ballot referendum to lengthen the school year. And Barrett conceded to the Legislature...

Article: Poll Shows Public Opposes Longer School Year; Wilder Aides Keep Pushing
The Washington Post;  October 31, 1991 ;     576 words ......Virginians oppose changes to the 180-day school year, according to a state survey, a large...of tax money required to extend the school year could be better spent raising their...ard's endorsement for trying the extended school year at various "demonstration schools" in...

Article: Clash of ideas on extending school year
The Boston Globe;  April 28, 1991 ;     700+ words ......long-term benefits of extending the 180-day school year against the immediate need to overcome...concept of extending by 40 days the school year, currently the shortest of any industrialized...closure. "If we are going to extend the school year, we have to make sure that the things...

Article: WILL CITIZENS SUPPORT A LONGER SCHOOL YEAR? DREAM ON
Evansville Courier & Press (2007-Current);  May 14, 2009 ;     483 words ......educator who supports making our school year longer, I want to thank you for...to help advance a 200-plus day school year for their children. Many of their emails said extending the school year had been high on their list of...

Article: City 'no' to school year of six terms; OVERHAUL 'WOULD NEED A LOT OF DISCUSSION' - COUNCILLOR.(News)
Coventry Evening Telegraph (England);  September 1, 2000 ;     239 words ......to ignore calls for a six-term school year - at least for the time being...line of ideas for revamping the school year, are an ''opportunity to look at the best way of organising the school year for the benefit of students, staff...

Article: A 21ST-CENTURY SCHOOL YEAR
The Boston Globe;  August 14, 1990 ;     311 words ......Flynn has joined those seeking a longer school year. Despite the added costs, it is clear...Europe and Asia. Japan has a 240-day school year, about 50 days longer than the American school year. Children in the US watch more television...

Article: Many Hampton schools fail to meet self-set goals in last school year: Principals are asked to create realistic objectives they hope to accomplish.
Daily Press (Newport News, VA);  October 19, 2006 ;     411 words ......objectives they set themselves by the end of last school year than the previous school year, Hampton School Board members heard Wednesday...that they hoped to meet by the end of the school year. Most of the goals relate to increasing the...

Article: A LONGER SCHOOL YEAR?
The Boston Globe;  December 9, 1990 ;     700+ words ......has proposed a plan to lengthen the school year, claiming that only a longer session...plans to submit a bill lengthening the school year from 180 days to 220 days. "Yet people...educators, any plan to lengthen the school year carries with it an enormous, and some...

Article: Committee hears bill to lengthen school year
Bangor Daily News Bangor, ME;  March 15, 2007 ;     652 words ......of a bill to expand the length of the school year by 10 days and another mandating that...R-Skowhegan, sponsor of the bill to extend the school year, told the committee Tuesday that it...countries and that the current 180-day school year was one of the shortest in the U.S...

Article: For U.S. Students, Fewer Days Off; Americans Turn to Longer School Year Just as Japan Trims Calendar
The Washington Post;  March 4, 1992 ;     700+ words ......pushing for a Japanese-style longer school year. Already, almost 1,700 schools have...and other countries by shortening the school year. "Students need more free time to do...schools will cut 11 days off the 243-day school year, closing one Saturday a month. Eventually...

Article: Maryland Proposes the Nation's Longest School Year
The Washington Post;  September 26, 1990 ;     657 words ......Education voted yesterday to extend the school year from 180 days to 200, an expensive strategy...would give Maryland students the longest school year in the nation. The board voted to phase...The board's support for the longer school year is, in essence, advice to Gov. William...

Article: Education view: Five-term school year best for everyone.(Education)
Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales);  April 10, 2003 ;     541 words ......of any change to the pattern of the school year. Apparently, they object on the grounds...at present. The arguments about the school year should not just be about the length...is subject to diminishing returns. A school year, fit for learning in the 21st Century...

Article: Dist. 203 ending the school year awash in red ink.(News)
Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL);  April 22, 2003 ;     325 words ......Naperville Unit District 203 will end this school year more in the red than administrators...summer. District 203 will likely end this school year with an accumulated deficit nearly...They say they can still end the 2005-06 school year with an accumulated deficit of no more...