Sentences with phrase «classroom size reduction»

Increased resources for library funding, technology, foreign language, and classroom size reduction have all been supported by the parent team.»

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He says he'll create a targeted size reduction plan for early grades and work to free up classroom space currently used for pre-K.

«Bond proceeds and re-programming in the proposed Capital Plan will meet the needs for enhanced education technology, reduction in class size and enable long - term investments in full - day pre-Kindergarten through the construction of new pre-Kindergarten classroom space.»

Alleviating Overcrowding: This budget will start to address space conditions in the city's schools, reducing overcrowding and the use of trailers as classrooms with $ 4.4 billion capital investment in new space, including class size reduction.

The report listed «educational resource deficiencies» that were familiar to the platoon of school leaders — ranging from increased class size and libraries being repurposed for classrooms to staff cuts and the reduction of pre-K programs from full - day to half - day.

Bulging class sizes, stagnant salaries, fewer teachers and limited supplies of everything from books to copy paper: That is what the reduction in per - pupil state funding looks like in thousands of classrooms around the country since the Great Recession — despite a much vaunted economic recovery.

And pupil - teacher ratios have fallen by almost 50 percent due to investments in class - size reduction and an increase in the number of teachers who are not assigned to full classrooms (see Figure 2).

Another study found that class - size reduction in Tennessee's K — 3 classrooms increased college enrollment rates by about 6 percentage points among African American students, although no impacts were observed for white students.

According to their estimates, some of their favored programs (such as classroom coaches) are more than 10 times as cost efficient as others, such as class size reduction for K — 3.

Proposition 300 Would direct earnings from public lands that are above the 2000 - 01 level to be deposited in the state classroom - site fund, to be used for such things as class - size reduction, teacher raises, and school facility bond...

The initiatives we have emphasized in policy discussions — class - size reduction, curriculum revamping, reorganization of school schedule, investment in technology — all fall far short of the impact that good teachers can have in the classroom.

Californias landmark class - size reduction effort hit a snag last week when the state education department announced that funding for new classrooms will come up $ 151 million short of first - year requests.

As contract negotiations plod along between LA Unified and the teachers union, UTLA, the issue of class size reduction has taken on a new urgency for Superintendent Ramon Cortines, who plans to shrink the number of students in middle school and high school classrooms by the end of the year.

Reducing class size is extremely popular among parents and teachers, though research has shown weak effects from modest class size reductions and schools sometimes struggle to find qualified teachers and classroom space to create new classes.

* UPDATED As contract negotiations plod along between LA Unified and the teachers union, UTLA, the issue of class size reduction has taken on a new urgency for Superintendent Ramon Cortines, who plans to shrink the number of students in middle school and high school classrooms by the end of the year.

With the advent of class size reduction, four new classrooms were added in 1997 and 1998.

A very large fraction of that increase has gone into reduction of class size, both by increasing the ratio of regular classroom teachers to students and by increasing the numbers of teachers» aides and other non-teaching personnel in the classroom.

Changing some conditions, such as teachers» classroom autonomy and faculty member's schoolwide influence, appears to be less costly than increasing teachers» salaries, professional development, or class - size reduction — an important consideration, especially in low - income settings and in periods of budgetary constraint.

Wake County Schools has so far largely met the class size reductions by putting classes in nontraditional classroom spaces.

The conclusion reached by this team of researchers was that in all grade levels that were related to computers in the classrooms, there were small -LRB--.09) to moderate -LRB--.35) effect sizes for reductions in conduct violations and disciplinary actions and improved attendance.

Another report says that that in primary schools, cuts will be focused on non-teaching areas but for secondary schools it could mean a reduction in the size or number of classrooms.