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Show Planning Time Held FARMINGTON - No action ac-tion has been taken by the Davis School Board on a planning plan-ning time request for West Point Elementary School. ABOUT TEN district schools, or one-fourth, arc utilizing uti-lizing planning time in their schedules. That gives teachers a time block, usually about 90 minutes one afternoon a week, for planning course outlines, etc. W'hile the board recently approved a planning program at Cook Elementary in Syracuse Syra-cuse it deferred the West Point request because it said such items should be brought before the board by Sept . 1 5 for action a month later, said Asst. Supt. Gayle Stevenson. HE EMPHASIZED schools are supposed to provide a prescribed pre-scribed number of hours of in struction during the five day week or about six hours each day. Those schools who implement imple-ment the planning block must alter the schedule to conform to that time limit. "We watch that (time allotment) allot-ment) carefully but every school is different (on scheduling). schedul-ing). If some sth(Kls are not doing it (corrective action wil! have to be taken)." Mr Stevenson said. IN THOSE schools where the program has been implemented im-plemented surveys of parents and teachers before the board gave approval. Generally about ab-out 70 percent or more of parents pa-rents have favored the change. General policy, including desires de-sires of Board Pres. Lucile Reading, has dictated it be on a day other than Friday, tb |