Sentences with phrase «spike in class sizes»

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Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone says he will nearly triple the size of this year's police class to offset a spike in retirement over the next three years.

County Executive Steve Bellone said he will nearly triple the size of this year's Suffolk police class to 175, the second largest in the department's history, to offset what officials expect to be a multiyear spike in retirement over the next three years.

If a grade has five or six classes today and one is eliminated, class sizes in that grade would spike by five or six students, said Queens Councilman Daniel Dromm, a former public school teacher.