New Jersey 101.5 » Sen Michael Doherty http://nj1015.com New Jersey News Tue, 18 Jun 2013 04:10:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 A Longer School Day and Year In NJ – Would You Support it? [POLL] http://nj1015.com/a-longer-school-day-and-year-in-nj-would-you-support-it-poll/ http://nj1015.com/a-longer-school-day-and-year-in-nj-would-you-support-it-poll/#comments Mon, 24 Sep 2012 20:24:08 +0000 Ray Rossi http://nj1015.com/?p=170766 On the surface, it sounds like a good idea.

A Senate committee has approved a pilot program that would lengthen the school day and school year in districts willing to opt into the program.

The reason I say, on the surface it doesn’t seem like a bad idea is the fact that, in some cases, we lag behind other countries in student achievement

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