1.   As it is, she said, high school teachers have only one true preparation period a day, with the second devoted to administrative chores.

2.   According to Doyle, the short preparation period is no reason to accelerate the program.

3.   It also wanted to eliminate the provisions for enforcing class sizes, and to take away one of two preparation periods that high-school teachers get each day.

4.   Still, there had been a long preparation period.

5.   The board estimates that suspending teacher sabbaticals and preparation periods would produce about the same savings as increasing class sizes and shortening school days combined.

6.   The city can demand, for instance, that the teachers work longer hours, perhaps by giving up sabbaticals or preparation periods.

7.   The contract also gives teachers one preparation period a day.

8.   Two other promising areas for potential savings are sabbaticals and preparation periods.