Are longer school days on the horizon for Visalia students?
Your child may be in for a longer school day come fall.
Negotiations are already underway after Visalia Unified trustees unanimously approved the district’s proposed expanded learning and opportunity grant, money meant to help both in-person and distance learners next year.
This may mean longer school days for students, teachers and administration, though the finer details are still being ironed out between the district and union.
“Our district has a historic revenue that comes along once in a generation. We need to put those resources to work in ways that accelerate our students and get the most bang for our buck,” said Greg Price, president of Visalia Unified Teacher Association.
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Angela Greenough on Thursday called for mending bridges and strengthening collaboration between employees, administrators and elected officials as outlined in Del Norte Unified School District’s Board Governance Handbook.
But the DNUSD Board President didn’t address a formal complaint against her colleague, Frank Magarino, directly except to say she discussed the issue with him and blamed California’s Ralph M. Brown Act for hindering transparency.
“I have been in discussion with Frank about this,” Greenough told her colleagues and the public. “I cannot always address all the emails that go back and forth between board members because of Brown Act violations, but we will discuss some of those, hopefully solutions, when we discuss our board governance handbook.”
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Citing a need for continuity of schedules to ease familiesâ schedules as well as logistical issues a full-time on-campus schedule would create, the Galt Joint Union Elementary School District (GJUESD) Board of Trustees voted to continue the am./p.m. blended instructional model through the end of the school year.
Among the reasons promoting the current part-time on campus school schedule, the board noted that if it were to increase class size and change schedules, itâd work against teachersâ goals to diagnose studentsâ needs and support them quickly and accordingly.
They also noted that the current blended a.m./p.m. model provides academic acceleration due to a smaller student to teacher ratio. The current model provides 2.5 hours of uninterrupted time with smaller class sizes, which has given teachers more opportunities to meet and exceed learning targets.