Sentences with phrase «elective class sizes»

The policy allows special and elective class sizes of 40 in middle and high schools, This is too big.

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College counseling, fine arts, P.E., electives, class sizes....

Now a combination of Quomo's low ball budget proposal along with the poorly constructed tax cap in place school local school districts need to portray the extremely unpopular cuts they now face (loss of electives and AP options; cuts to music, art and athletics; increased class size) as being directly the result of decisions made by our legislators in Albany.

This has meant larger class sizes, the elimination of entire programs and the elimination of electives at the high school level — and every district in New York has suffered.

Consequently, schools, especially in Connecticut's neediest districts, can not afford basic educational tools such as a sufficient number of teachers, reasonable class size, adequate school facilities, services for at - risk children, electives, AP classes, even books, computers and paper.

They may reduce class size in core subjects to support writing instruction and formative assessment while increasing class size in elective courses.

They've excluded elective courses from class size.

Chief Academic Officer Frances Gipson said the additional teachers are an investment in class size reductions and adding to elective opportunities in middle and high schools.

It includes a first - time - ever cap on PE class sizes, increased access to electives, additional counseling support and additional social - emotional support at our highest - needs secondary schools, and reduced class sizes in the upper grades at the 55 highest - need elementary schools.

They forced school districts throughout PA to cut 20,000 educational professionals from our children's classrooms; increase class sizes; eliminate music, art and countless other electives; raise local property taxes; eliminate tutoring and extra help programs; and much more.

For example, students are provided with a double dose of reading through an elective course and an English teacher has been «repurposed» as a reading teacher, resulting in larger class sizes for other English teachers.

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.