Chase Elementary School, is in a tough, almost entirely Spanish-speaking, Chicago neighborhood, yet 40 or so kids come to school an hour early each day just to take one of the company's Accelerated Reader computer quizzes.
Outside of health care, its work in education has 35 employees tutoring kids at a nearby school during lunch hour several days a week.
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My wife, like many public school teachers, puts in 60-hour work weeks throughout the school year.
School was postponed for an hour Friday morning, but she worried that more storms could cut into remaining breaks in the school calendar.
His death came as a shock to his former teachers at Pennridge High School, about an hour north of Philadelphia.
It's one way to keep the attention of ten-year-olds who are expected to stay focused for KIPP's nine-and-a-half-hour long school day.
When they aren't traveling on weekend "squashcations, " the girls play for about an hour after school and then practice two more hours from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. every night after homework and dinner.
Soon he was working three hours before school at the apartment complex for 65 cents an hour and another eight hours after school.
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One week before the school year began, workers finished removing mold from the air-conditioning system and teachers spent nine-hour days repainting the school to give it a distinctive identity.
It will have a school day that lasts an hour longer and offer an afterschool program that runs until 6:30 p.m.
There have been reports that parents complained about the introduction of the ice cream vans and the two-hour delay for school meals.
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Throughout the school year, pairs meet at the high school once a week for an hour.
Parents have received an apology from Worcestershire County Council after the authority's school closures website crashed for an hour.
Sports, a proposed 24-hour, multiplatform high school sports network.
Each day, dressed in a clean uniform, she sets out on the hazardous hour-long walk to school.
We chase school after school of false albacore for half an hour and never once get a bite.
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Guan's father, who introduced his son to the game when he was a toddler, picks him up after school every day for the one-hour trip to Lion Lake.
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Bundy, who was clocked at 100 miles per hour as a high-school senior in Oklahoma and who was selected by the Orioles with the fourth pick last June, hadn't surrendered a hit through 13 innings heading into Monday night's start.
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Another significant requirement of the bill is a mandatory 72-hour notice to all parents and school staff before pesticide use.
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He persuaded two teachers from the school to take him on the four-hour trek. from the capital to the mines.
But shadow education secretary Stephen Twigg accused the government of being "out of touch" on school sport by not backing the two-hour target.
"It could last for an hour, " said the high school freshman.
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And Christiana Stoddard and Peter Kuhn (2008) found that, since 1983, teacher on-the-job hours have increased by roughly one hour per week, while after school time devoted to work has jumped by 34%.
But children like Jyothi put in ten-hour days in the field and miss school.
On Monday, Mr Obama urged Americans to demand action from Congress in an impassioned speech in Connecticut, just an hour from the scene of the Newtown school shooting.
Under the so-called Family Intervention Projects, they will be given intensive 24-hour supervision to make sure children attend school, go to bed on time and eat proper meals.
The hearing itself was a two-hour ordeal of unabated grilling by the school's committee, during which, my son later reported, he was expressly denied his request to be represented by counsel or even to have an attorney outside the door of the room.
The students will also be required to complete a two-hour training course on cultural sensitivity, the school said.
Some of the children travelled to performing arts school in London by train and underground during the rush hour, the jury heard.
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