Sentences with phrase «including class size reduction»

• Support for improving schools rather than closing them, by means of evidence - based solutions, including class size reduction and expansion of preK programs, as designed by parents and other stakeholders at the school level.

In addition, options should include research - based improvements including class size reduction, expansion of preschool programs, and more parent involvement in decision - making at all levels.

These patterns are repeated when one goes to the other «evidence - based» recommendations of Picus and Odden, including class size reduction and professional development.

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.

Not exact matches

Policymakers would examine the results of various interventions, including afterschool programs, changes in class and day length, or class - size reductions.

Recommendations included the reduction of primary school class sizes and the recruitment of more male teachers.

This includes planning for across the board layoffs, significant program cutbacks, and the rollback of reform programs, such as class - size reductions.

Those include a reduction in class size at the primary level, a back to basics movement, the return to a phonics - based reading program, and the provision of incentives for teachers who agree to work in disadvantaged areas.

After congratulating the nation for working to amass current successes — including financial aid options that have «finally opened the doors of college to all Americans,» state - developed academic standards, the creation of a voluntary national test, technology in the schools, and an emphasis on class - size reduction — Clinton outlined his proposal to drive public education into the 21st century.

Similarly, class size policies are likely to be effective if they include large class size reductions in the earliest grades targeted at the neediest children.

Included: The latest research on class size reduction.

The union used the election to air contract demands that included limits to class sizes, increases in teacher preparation time, a reduction of paperwork mandates and additional school counselors and nurses.

Public schools would get $ 500 million, including $ 248 million annually to fully fund reductions in class sizes approved by 72 percent of voters in 2000.

Included in the bill passed this week by the General Assembly to fund and extend the timeline for class size reductions was a barely mentioned provision that will expand eligibility for the state's new Personal Education Savings Accounts (PESAs) program.

Early approval will make it harder to include meaningful class size reduction, as well as other changes identified through community input, in the final budget.

The options for cuts include «staffing reductions, further increased class sizes, withdrawal of counselling and pastoral services, modified school hours, reduction in books, IT and equipment».

Other frequently cited explanations for shortages include teacher retirements (54 %), teachers leaving the district (34 %), reductions in class size (32 %), and the high cost of living (29 %).

We will also share some fact sheets including «Why Tying Teacher Salaries to Test Scores Doesn't Work,» a comparison chart of the relative success of reducing class size versus using Race to the Top strategies (no surprise — class size reduction works better!)