N.Y.C. Plan To Ensure Full Day of Schooling Ordered

By Jeanne Ponessa

The state education commissioner ordered New York City school administrators to submit by this week a plan to ensure that all the nearly 1 million students in the district's crowded schools receive a full day's worth of schooling.

In a Jan. 9 letter to Chancellor Rudy F. Crew, Commissioner Richard P. Mills set a Jan. 23 deadline for the city to explain how it would bring its schools into compliance with the state's 5 1/2-hour daily instructional requirement.

"At this point, it appears that thousands of children in New York City are not getting the education that the law requires," Mr. Mills...