Sentences with phrase «teacher ratios back»

To bring student - teacher ratios back to pre-recession levels, districts would need to hire 60,000 new teachers beyond their other hiring needs.

Not exact matches

Such cuts would only move schools back to where they were before the recession in terms of class sizes and pupil - teacher ratios.

With the backing of teachers» union President Paul Hubbert, Gov. Fob James Jr. proposed a school - reform bill this year that promised 1,600 additional teachers and lower pupil - teacher ratios, all without a tax increase.

The K12 - backed application proposed staggering student - teacher ratios of 150:1 in high school and 50:1 in the early grades.

With more money on hand, some districts are looking to bring their staffs back to pre-recession levels, but the state has a long way to go before it reaches a basic level of student - to - teacher ratio, the report states.

Months ago the members directed Superintendent John Deasy to devise a spending plan that included a laundry list of wants, needs and programs, including rehiring employees laid off during the recession and bringing back student - to - teacher and student - to - counselor ratios to 2007 levels.

Schools are cutting back on teacher numbers and the pupil - to - teacher ratio is worsening.

«We know there are some local challenges, the truth is despite rising pupil numbers and the competitive jobs market a stronger economy has created, more people are entering the teaching profession than leaving it, there are 13,100 more teachers today than when we came to office and the ratio of teachers to pupils is stable with more teachers also choosing to come back to the classroom,» he said.

Gibb said: «We know there are some local challenges, the truth is despite rising pupil numbers and the competitive jobs market a stronger economy has created, more people are entering the teaching profession than leaving it, there are 13,100 more teachers today than when we came to office and the ratio of teachers to pupils is stable with more teachers also choosing to come back to the classroom.

He'd recently come to our «Ratio» training, which focuses on how to make more classrooms where students do the cognitive work and was now doing training and support for teachers back at his school.