Sentences with phrase «rise in class size»

The move saved more than a half million dollars, which the district then used to bolster its funding in elementary and middle schools, where it had experienced a significant rise in class sizes.

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China should be attractive to small U.S. companies, due to the market's size, rising consumption in the country and an increasing fondness for American products among China's young and growing middle class of over 300 million consumers.

Since percipients encounter relatively persistent sources of agency, patterns of interactions of these agents with each other can give rise to compound individuals of indefinitely - high degrees of complexity.21 Whitehead often wrote, particularly in his less - formal work, as if entities of various sizes could properly be classed as actual entities.

But no, as talk turned to rising class sizes in primary schools, and new schools being built in areas with surplus places, our leaders were catapulted into a classroom full to bursting with red - faced, Capri Sun - pumped, blue Smartie overdosing, sticky - suited schoolkids.

While the Labour leader decried rising class sizes in primary schools, David Cameron countered by yah - booing at trade union control over the opposition.

A report published in December 2011 by the Department for Education looked at the impact of a rising birth rate on pupil numbers and how that could affect class sizes and educational outcomes.

The announcement came in the form of a series of changes Fariña proposed to the Department of Education's 2015 - 2019 Capital Plan, which also includes adding 7,000 seats to the city's schools to make room for Mayor Bill de Blasio's proposed universal pre-K program and to help reduce class size, which rose consistently during the last six years of the Bloomberg administration.

What's more, class sizes continue to rise across the board, exacerbating overcrowding in buildings that also remain in need of both interior and exterior renovations.

Chris Lowell (an isotope of John Krasinski) plays a mild college student who gets sucked into the gravitational pull of the planet - size eyes of a blond cutie (Rose McIver) in astronomy class.

But the answer isn't just to lay off teachers and let class sizes rise (though, in most grades and subjects, modest increases aren't the end of the world).

But with 85 % of the money in teacher salaries and benefits, we have to let class sizes rise, too.

This may have been an important factor in recent years, but rising costs and falling class sizes pre-date widespread unionization.

Respondents also claimed that class sizes are expected to rise further in the next 12 months and cuts will have to be made to support services, enrichment activities and course options.

Budget cuts, rising class sizes and the cutting of specialist support services are leading to increases in physical and verbal abuse against staff, according to NASUWT.

Research by the School Cuts coalition of unions (NEU, NAHT, ASCL, UNISON, GMB and Unite) shows that class sizes are rising in the majority of secondary schools as a result of the government's underfunding of education.

Yet it's virtually impossible — in the Sunshine State or elsewhere — to significantly reduce education spending without allowing class sizes to rise.

With class sizes on the rise, many teachers rarely get the chance to see their colleagues in action, and often feel overworked and under - informed.

This rise in demand is also likely to raise questions about the maximum class size limits for infant classes.

New research by the School Cuts coalition of unions (NEU, NAHT, ASCL, UNISON, GMB and Unite) shows that class sizes are rising in the majority of secondary schools in England as a result of the Govern...

The rising 10th grade doubled in size by adding new sophomore students and the incoming freshman class is double the previous size for the 9th grade.

But factoring in inflation and other rising costs and the impacts of earlier cuts, public districts are still cutting budgets, hiking class sizes and losing experienced professionals who have had enough.

Eleven school districts around the state will hold referendums on Tuesday, with eight of those districts requesting money to maintain class sizes and programming in the wake of reduced state aid, rising costs and, in some cases, declining enrollment.

For example, California Watch reports that not only have California's class sizes risen by an average of 5 students at the primary level and 3 at higher grade levels (making 31 students the new average in classrooms from fourth grade on up), but almost 60 % of the state's school districts have shaved days off the school year.

This is particularly difficult at a time when the supply of teachers is constrained by high turnover rates, annual retirements of longtime teachers, and a decline in students opting for a teaching career — and when demand for teachers is rising due to rigorous national student performance standards and many locales» mandates to shrink class sizes.

Still, teachers are bracing for the worst, expecting cuts in the salaries they take home, scrapped programs, rising class sizes and more school closures.

LAS CRUCES - Enrollment in charter schools is rising across the nation, and educators say southern New Mexico is no exception as parents seek options and smaller class sizes...

Though anecdotal reports in California said teachers from disadvantaged schools fled when new positions opened up in other schools when class sizes were reduced, what the follow - up studies show is that after rising temporarily in all schools, teacher migration rates fell dramatically to much lower levels than before, most sharply in schools with large numbers of poor students.

The unemployment statistics we currently see in the legal profession are likely to rise in light of supply changes such as higher class sizes, new law schools, and more foreign graduates.