It has had the bonus of freeing teachers to concentrate on functional reading.

That provision frees teachers from patrolling corridors or cafeterias and from taking nonteaching assignments, like working as a college adviser.

Nevertheless, school ends by July 1 in keeping with the tradition of an agricultural calendar, freeing students and teachers for work on their farms during summer months.

The provision, which principals hate, frees teachers from patrolling hallways and cafeterias and from taking nonteaching assignments, like working as a dean or college adviser.

The service concept is advancing where school reforms have already freed principals and teachers from old-fashioned rules.

But they would be a big leap forward, freeing teachers, students, parents and administrators from some of the bureaucracy, politics and patronage.

The public must do its part to restore pride to our public schools by freeing principals and teachers to enforce the code of discipline that each school is mandated to have.

The scheme seems designed to alleviate a problem created when City Hall negotiated a new labor contract that frees teachers from monitoring duties outside the classroom.

The rule was intended to improve the atmosphere in schools by freeing teachers from patrolling duties so they could spend more quality time with students.

Under Mr. Giuliani's plan, welfare recipients would have been used to supervise students during lunch time, at recess and in hallways, freeing teachers to perform other tasks.