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Chicago schools slow to embrace longer school days
- 10-13-2011
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By Julie Rasicot/Education Week
An initiative by the Chicago public schools to expand the school day by 90 minutes is off to a slow start, garnering participation from less than 3 percent of eligible elementary schools so far and eliciting cries of unfair labor practices from the local teachers’ union. Just 13 out of 482 of the district’s elementary schools have agreed to waive collective bargaining rights and accept monetary incentives offered by the district to expand instruction time this school year as part of what it calls the Longer School Day Pioneer Program. Announced on Aug. 23, the pilot program offers a head start for schools on the district’s plan to expand instruction time at all 675 elementary and high schools in the 2012-13 school year. (more...)
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