Sentences with phrase «class size increases»

Some teachers are seeing class sizes increase by five or more students each year.

As class sizes increase and resources disappear, teachers need to maximize their effectiveness and efficiency while being innovative.

For online counseling programs, a small class size increases intimacy and learning opportunities.

They're seeing their colleagues laid off, they're seeing class sizes increase.

As class size increases, the overall effectiveness does decrease.

However, it would also be about $ 10 million more expensive than Murphy's plan, an unpleasant prospect for Board members after APS narrowly avoided class size increases in its last budget.

From the recession to 2013, California average class sizes increased from 21 - 22 students to 24 students.

The Government needs to recognise that funding cuts are also now driving up workload - with class sizes increasing in two - thirds of secondary schools and teachers facing cut backs in preparation time.

The Arlington School Board managed to avoid class size increases in its new budget, but the county's worsening financial outlook has school leaders warning that future spending plans could include additional painful cuts.

They also seem to be willing to accept some propositions with highly circumscribed causal contingency — for instance, that reducing class size increases achievement (provided that it is a «sizable» change and that the reduction is to fewer than 20 students per class); that Catholic schools are superior to public ones in the inner - city but not in suburban settings.

Which teachers fare best under class size increases?

«Our concern is that, as more public education dollars head outside the classroom, our kids will face huge class size increases, and fewer arts, technology, and other curriculum options that are critical for their futures.

An enrichment programme would also be removed and A-level class sizes increased.

With class sizes increasing due to teacher layoffs, and with the dismissal of reading specialists and similar personnel, it is not far - fetched to say that learning is being jeopardized by less money being spent on education.

A survey of union chapter leaders (perhaps not the most objective of sources) found, the UFT reports, that 74 percent of elementary schools have seen class size increase this year.

A preliminary report released by the Department of Education on Dec. 14 shows that average class sizes increased this school year.

Common sense inclines us to believe that small class sizes increases the likelihood that teachers will be more effective educators and that student achievement will be greater.

Class size increases in Massachusetts are particularly pronounced at the elementary - grade level, says Glenn Koocher, executive director of the Massachusetts Association of School Committees.

As class sizes increase and resources disappear, teachers need to maximize their...

«If the class size increases, the children won't get the attention they deserve,» Laris said, noting that she is also concerned that layoffs will force her school to cut music and arts education and after - school programming.

Indeed, Swedish expenditures did go down, teachers» salaries showed relative decline, and class size increased.

Weingarten: 63: The percentage of teachers who say that their class sizes increased in the last year.

«We've seen our districts struggle and we've certainly seen our class sizes increase,» said Cheryl Semmel, executive director of the Kansas School Superintendents Association.

Class size increases have been as high as 40 students per classroom and are often linked to a more difficult learning environment for students.

This week PURE and some other parent groups released a press statement thanking President Obama for recognizing the importance of class size in his weekly address, and for releasing a report that shows how the elimination of 60,000 teaching positions since 2009 is not only unprecedented in US postwar history, but has led to class size increases that are severely damaging the quality of our public schools.

Leonie Haimson, Executive Director of Class Size Matters, said: «The President's speech yesterday and the new White House report, Investing in our Future, make it crystal clear that the class size increases across the nation represent a crisis that is severely undermining our children's opportunity to learn.

Parent leaders throughout the nation thank President Obama for recognizing the importance of class size in his weekly address, and for releasing a report that shows how the elimination of 60,000 teaching positions since 2009 is not only unprecedented in US postwar history, but has led to class size increases that are severely damaging the quality of our public schools.

Indeed, esteemed researchers such as Peter Blatchford have found that there is no particular threshold that must be reached before students receive benefits from smaller classes, and any reduction in class size increases the probability that they will be on - task and positively engaged in learning.

Humans will leave, class sizes increase, specialist areas will consolidate, electives will be eliminated, then technology will be purchased instead of replacing them.

State and local education budgets have been hit hard by the recession, and educator jobs have been lost, programs cut, class sizes increased, and services and supplies curtailed.

When my two boys attended our neighborhood public school, I witnessed the dire results of budget cuts — programs like art, music, and electives were cut, class sizes increased, and teachers began leaving the profession.