Sentences with phrase «state limits on class sizes»

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In Japan, a system of lifetime employment in many big businesses, a tradition of employer provided benefits such as housing in many cases, and a wage system in those kinds of businesses where workers receive a substantial share of their annual income in the form of an annual bonus whose size can be used to buffer good and bad years for a company sharing risks and rewards with workers instead of limiting the risks and rewards to an investor class, have contributed to low levels of income inequality in the Japanese economy relative to comparably developed countries with comparable levels of government spending on welfare state type programs in other countries.

Finally, the Florida information tells us what happens when a state government tries to bring about class size reduction on a large scale, whereas the Tennessee experiment was limited to only a fairly small number of schools and to much larger reductions in class size.

Differences in class size were in part a function of a state - imposed limit on AP class size.

First, states and districts can discontinue costly practices that have not been shown to enhance student achievement, including paying educators for out - of - field master's degrees and salary premiums for experience; following «last in, first out» personnel provisions; relying on regular classroom instructional aides; and adhering to mandated limits on class size.

A lawyer for Florida's statewide teachers union asked a judge Wednesday to block the counting of votes cast on the Legislature's proposed state constitutional amendment to loosen class size limits.