Sentences with phrase «raise class sizes»

The Spokane school board voted 4 - 1 Wednesday to temporarily raise class sizes by up to three students.

We can't afford to raise class sizes across the country.

High Financial Costs: As a result of budget cuts, states and districts around the country are being forced to lay off teachers, lose valuable programs, and raise class sizes.

Already, schools have been forced to raise class sizes, institute unpaid furlough days for staff, lay off teachers, and cut back on essential programs that our kids need to be successful.

No local school district will want to fire 10 % of their already low supply of teachers just because housing prices dropped - something that would raise class sizes by 10 % when our State already has the highest class sizes in the nation.

When Chicago school officials announced their intention to raise class sizes in June, the teachers» union immediately filed suit to block the move.

This will make it increasingly hard for schools to find enough trained teachers and force some to raise class sizes or cut the range of subjects they teach.

Raise class sizes?

Hate the idea of raising class sizes?

So here's some good news: schools can give a lot more than six more students access to excellent teachers, without actually raising class sizes.

From coast to coast, school districts, colleges and universities are eliminating jobs, cutting programs, raising class sizes, and doing whatever else they can to absorb budget cuts and still provide a decent education to students.

(Both men, for example, have recently been promoting the idea of raising class size.)

Speaking of fiscal sustainability, Jeff Bennett at New Jersey Education Aid does a deep dive on Lakewood's budget «disaster,» which threatens to raise class size to 40 children.

We cut teachers, raising class sizes, and then insist on differentiating instruction for each child, plotting him on a «readiness continuum» and custom - designing lessons based on that readiness.

Raise Your Hand Illinois came to prominence in the spring of 2010 with their «Say No to 37» campaign, a protest against CPS plans to balance the budget by raising class size.

And you'll see class sizes going up and up, because it's the unions - you know, vilify them if you want, as many do - but they're the ones who are standing in the way of the legislatures cutting the budgets and raising class sizes, and making it even worse for teachers.

Not exact matches

suggests that class size reduction policies are not the best option in terms of value for money to raising pupil attainment, compared to others such as increasing teacher effectiveness.

The Government did acknowledge this initially, insisting that it was a necessary price to pay for achieving the desired goal in primary schools:» Either they want us to ring fence ear - marked money and say «you can only spend it on class size» or they want the freedom to spend it in the school on raising standards», then Education Secretary David Blunkett argued in April 2000.

UFT President Michael Mulgrew on Dec. 9 called for closing tax loopholes that benefit non-resident owners of luxury properties to raise revenue to bring class sizes in kindergarten through Grade 3 down to no more than 15 children.

Welsh Lib Dem Education Secretary Kirsty Williams has announced plans to reduce infant class sizes and raise standards.

Both organizations are in favor of reducing class sizes and raising teacher salaries.

His conclusion: summer school could be a more cost - effective way of raising test scores than reducing class size.

And they compared the sizes of these structures with those of 12 - year - old children who were raised in middle - class families and had not been abused.

Respect (especially from school administrators), pay raises, and smaller class sizes also made an impressive showing, and it seems eliminating excessive bureaucracy and paperwork could make a dent in exhaustion, too.

The Tennessee experiment suggested that a 10 percent reduction in class size in grades K — 3 raised students» standard scores by 0.06.

As one of us has noted in these pages (see «Mounting Debt,» forum, Winter 2004), a surplus may suggest to employee unions that a raise is due and to parents that class sizes should shrink.

Many a district leader has found that raising salaries and reducing class sizes is quite a bit more palatable politically than vice versa.

They spoke of raising standards, reducing class sizes, encouraging choices, building new schools, improving teacher quality, toughening accountability, and strengthening local control.

In a recent Public Agenda survey, parents of public high - school students supported the idea that reducing class sizes was a better way to improve schools than raising salaries for teachers.

Finding evidence that reduction in class size raises student achievement has often been difficult.

For example, as handouts and story starters; in inclusion, extensions, differentiation; as starters, breakouts and plenaries; one - to - one, in pairs, teams and as a whole class; with students of all ages and abilities; with classes of all sizes big and small; to raise questions; encourage reflection; improve motivation; enhance discussions and analysis; as part of rich learning and communication skills; as resources that can be used by students to develop their leadership and confidence.

The union saw this as proof that the district could afford raises for teachers and that some unpopular budget cuts, such as increases in class size, were unnecessary.

Hanushek also claims that the class - size results show that reducing class sizes only in kindergarten can raise student achievement.

Miller briefly relates the tale of the $ 2 billion court - ordered desegregation plan in the mid-1980s for Kansas City, in which teachers» salaries were raised, class sizes slashed, and beautiful facilities created.

Reducing class size improves discipline and raises student achievement.

If public schools had the additional resources necessary to reduce class size, so the thinking goes, they too would raise student performance.

Moreover, the program proved to be a highly cost - effective means of improving reading scores, especially when compared with the common alternatives, like class size reductions and raising teachers» salaries.

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...

«Forgive some academic jargon, but the most common education reform ideas — reducing class size, raising teacher pay, enrolling kids in Head Start — produce gains of about 0.1 or 0.2 or 0.3 standard deviations.

This led some economists of the time to conclude that «input - based» policies such as providing more money to schools, reducing class sizes and improving teacher qualifications had «failed», and that improvements in schools now depended on giving teachers direct incentives to raise student performance:

Obviously, this raises the question of class size.

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That is why we will support teachers with continuous learning and development, better support and identify our leaders, and reduce class sizes so that we can raise standards for all.»

St. Vrain passed a $ 14.8 million mill levy override that gave teachers raises, maintained class sizes, and helped fund preschool for low - income students.

They overwhelmingly approved a contract that reduces class sizes, increases the time teachers spend with students, limits administrative meetings, and gives teachers a raise, said Kent Education Association spokesman Dale Folkerts.

Under Mr. Wilson's amended budget proposal, another $ 230 million would be pumped into the state's K - 3 class - size - reduction effort, raising revenue for the program to $ 1.5 billion beginning in the fall.

The union's demands are outlined in the Schools LA Students Deserve campaign, which includes a demand for teacher raises, lower class sizes and an end to «teacher jail.»

«You see, people taking furlough days, you see people taking modest raises or pay cuts, you see digging deeper in their pockets, you see higher class sizes, you see effects for families teachers and kids,» Weingarten said.

Opponents also argue that we can't afford to take any money out of the public system when the Legislature has refused to pay for smaller class sizes and teacher raises as provided by Initiative 728 and Initiative 732 in recent years.

Thinking they'd found the holy grail to raising student performance and erasing the achievement gap between poor and affluent children, politicians and policymakers in some states sought to shrink class sizes.