Sentence examples for year-round school from inspiring English sources

It's the impetus behind year-round school and the reason many kids start their summer vacation with backpacks filled with math packets, summer reading lists and essay assignments.

Students who attend a year-round school will get the equivalent of nearly an extra year of instructional days by the time they start high school.

Once deposited and uniformed, Thea comes to realize that Yonahlossee isn't just an elite summer camp but a year-round school and — cue "Hotel California" — she's not going anywhere for a long time.

Still, the extended school year is steadily gaining popularity, said Marilyn Stenvall, executive director of the National Association for Year-Round Education, which counts any school with fewer than eight weeks off during the summer as a year-round school.

Even if they're not in year-round school, their structured day remains, in the form of a summer school program or a summer camp, and parents' work schedules continue.

At Central Elementary School, a year-round school with 1,200 mostly Hispanic children crammed into a facility built for 800, Elaine Arm, the principal, praises Mr. Bersin's educational overhaul.

But year-round schooling is not what I'm proposing.

About 3,000 public schools in 43 states and the District of Columbia now qualify as year-round schools.

They also claim to be the only school in Louisiana to offer year-round schooling.

It might be better, she said, to move to year-round schooling for all students.

"A Fine, Fine School " might well have been conceived as a snappy rebuttal to the year-round schooling movement.