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CHICAGO, Nov. 29 (UPI) -- Parents at Chicago's Disney II Magnet school are trying to raise $100,000 just to keep their children in class an extra hour each day, officials said.
Chicago public schools have some of the shortest days in the nation -- 5 hours 8 minutes of instruction compared with 6 hours 30 minutes in New York and 6 hours in Boston, the Chicago News Cooperative reported in a story published in The New York Times Sunday.
With an extra hour of class time four days per week, the Disney II Magnet school could increase time spent on literacy, math, science and music for students, who range in age from 3 to 9, Principal Bogdana Chkoumbova said.
To do that for all 417,000 students in the Chicago Public Schools would cost about $280 million at a time when the school system faces a deficit that could reach $900 million in the 2010-11 fiscal year, authorities said.
"Most people would absolutely say more time is better," said school system spokeswoman Erica Harris. But, given the financial difficulties, "that conversation ends before it starts."
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