Sentences with phrase «class size caps»

The district has eliminated nearly 150 teaching positions since 2014 and has used new changes in state law that allows districts to remove class size caps at low - income schools.

With class sized capped at 11 people at maximum, you are assured hands - on and personalized attention at every class.

1: Number of years to retain the status quo, with phasing in of smaller class size caps in the ensuing three years.

Yet Morris, like most local school leaders, couldn't say yet what the capital cost of new class size caps would be over the next four years.

In that position, she worked to retain class size caps, preK and full day K funding, first established by Texas» landmark school reform bill in 1984.

4,750: Number of estimated new classroom teachers required to meet the General Assembly's pending class size cap.

«Rhee pushed to eliminate class size caps in Tennessee schools — and to cancel a reform that has proven to work.

And while district leaders have yet to develop a total capital cost estimate for the new class size caps that will be phased in over the next four years, experts say districts — particularly those located in economically depressed regions — will be hard - pressed to find the billions of dollars necessary for new K - 12 infrastructure in North Carolina.

Class size caps in the contract and a re-iteration of class size averages in the contract, although details were not released.

Local school districts and public school advocates have long warned that a legislative order to chop K - 3 class sizes would have deleterious effects on the state's classrooms, demanding a massive investment in classroom space and possibly crowding out «enhancement» teachers — the arts, music and physical education instructors who would likely lose jobs as cash - starved districts scrambled to find budget space to meet the class size cap.

$ 239 million: Amount needed to fully fund classroom and «enhancement» teachers under the General's Assembly 2018 - 2019 class size cap, based on historic ratio of one enhancement teacher per six classroom teachers.

An earlier version listed an incorrect figure for the number of new classroom teachers necessary to meet the class size cap.]

However - subject to parliamentary approval - the new class size cap will come into force on 11 October and apply to the 2011 - 12 academic year.