Elementary and Middle School Students Receive Less Daily Instruction than State Peers
This week Patch takes a look at a number of district educational trends revealed in the Department of Education’s annual Report Card, released May 31.
When Superintendent Bruce Watson scans Fair Lawn’s School Report Card – the district performance overview issued annually by the state -- he sees growth. Fair Lawn is right up there, if not better, than its socioeconomic peers and even socioeconomically wealthier districts when it comes to test scores, administration/student ratio and per pupil cost, he said. “There’s only one thing I’m not happy with, never have been,” Watson said after poring over the School Report Card. “The comparison of instructional time.” Fair Lawn’s daily instructional time trails the state average at the middle school and elementary school level. Watson said he’s most concerned with the instructional time gap at the elementary level, where during the 2010-2011 …
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10:55 pm on Friday, June 15, 2012
PS- Today I learned some interesting information. Mr. Watson made an error in saying elementary schools currently get 1 hour and 10 minutes for lunch. According to my sources, they have never gotten that long. That being said, let's analyze the rest of the data here before squeezing the kids any further. more ›