Any elementary school that went along with the idea, which school officials began calling the Longer School Day Pioneer Program, would get extra money ($150,000 for those that started right away), and its teachers would get what amounts to a 2 percent bonus.
German was first introduced into the curriculum in 1931, the same time at which the school began to offer voluntary after-school art classes.
You have to reapply for every academic year which (for most schools) begins in the Fall.
The five-day Fiesta Mexicana in Topeka, Kan., which supports a local school, began in 1933.
The next production doesn't arrive until the summer, the American premiere of "Choir Boy," a play with music by Tarell Alvin McCraney ("The Brother/Sister Plays"), about a gospel chorus at an African-American prep school, which begins performances in June.
In the Los Angeles Unified School District, a projected 10,700 second-graders and 4,500 eighth-graders who fell short of state standards and stand a chance of not being promoted are required to attend summer school, which begins July 9.
The leadership uncertainty did not delay summer school, which began yesterday for 123,552 high school students and 172,014 students in grades three to eight.
Knowing that their students would be tested and that the results would be used to evaluate which schools would be rewarded, educators began teaching to the tests, at the expense of sound curriculum.
Students were required to state their high school preferences in early December, around the time the department began to reveal which schools it wanted to close.
The former athletic director took particular issue with the circumstances surrounding his departure from the school, which began with an announced sabbatical in October 2017, the result of a growing schism between Anderson and the school administration.
