Sentences with phrase «teacher ratios down»

Using some of the funds that would be available thanks to slashing 8,500 + TAs over the next biennium, local school districts would be able to hire additional classroom teachers to eventually get early classroom student to teacher ratios down to 15:1.

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«The question that we should ask is how can you inherit a budget deficit of 9.3 % of GDP, proceed to reduce taxes, bring down inflation, bring down interest rates, increase economic growth (from 3.6 % to 7.9 %), increase your international reserves, maintain relative exchange rate stability, reduce the debt to GDP ratio and the rate of debt accumulation, pay almost half of arrears inherited, stay current on obligations to statutory funds, restore teacher and nursing training allowances, double the capitation grant, implement free senior high school education and yet still be able to reduce the fiscal deficit from 9.3 % to an estimated 5.6 % of GDP?

That's why national teacher - student ratios are down to 15:1 today.

In addition, most classes have an Instructor present in the classroom with the teacher, bringing the teacher / student ratio down to about thirteen.

As districts cut pupil / teacher ratios from almost 19:1 in the early 1980s down to almost 16:1 today, they hired many more teachers than they lost.