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LAUSD considers earlier start to school
- 11-29-2010
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By Howard Blume/Los Angeles Times
An education reform gaining traction locally has nothing to do with reading or math: It's a plan to start the school year earlier. This change would not make the school year longer — it would just begin sooner and end sooner. The Los Angeles Unified School District hails the idea as a step forward academically, arguing that students would be better prepared for exams. They would take first-semester exams sooner — before the winter vacation erodes that term's learning. And the High School Exit Exam and Advanced Placement exams would come later in the academic year, after teachers had covered additional material. The Board of Education is expected to vote on the new calendar in December. Eighteen schools already made the change this summer. But some parents and teachers don't want to exchange the typically temperate days of June for the scorchers of August, especially in the San Fernando Valley. (more…)
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