Sentences with phrase «forced class size mandate»

In theory, said Rep. Blackwell, reduced class sizes can be a good thing — but it's a much more complicated issue than simply reducing class size alone, and he says he doesn't support the forced class size mandate in its current form.

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With an aging teaching force, mandated class size reductions, and the swelling numbers of immigrants and baby boomer children, U.S. schools will need an unprecedented number of new teachers over the next decade.

In Wake County, a fast - growing district, the class size mandate has resulted in the Wake County Board of Education considering reassignment proposals that would force many families to leave their base schools.

Districts utilized the teaching allocation to fund both specialty and core subject teachers in the years since, but with last year's mandate to chop class sizes, district advocates said they would have been forced to lay off specialty educators to clear funding for the new core subject teachers.

North Carolina public school leaders say a legislative mandate to decrease class sizes in the early grades may have a devastating impact on school systems across the state, forcing districts to spend millions more hiring teachers or cut scores of positions for those teaching «specialty» subjects such as arts, music and physical education.