Class Size

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• Class sizes creep up statewide, making full compliance with 2002 law all the harder, new figures show

  
  Sentinel School Zone — Authority: 440
  Floridas average class sizes increased this year across the board, a first since 2002. Thats the year, the state (following voter demands) started working to shrink the number of students in each class. But figures released by the Florida Department...
  1 week ago

• Oranges class size issue blamed on computer problems

  
  Sentinel School Zone — Authority: 440
  Orange County school administrators say they will appeal most, if not all, of the findings that landed 29 of their schools on the states out-of-compliance, class-size list. Deputy Superintendent Judy Cunningham said administrators think a new student-tracking software system created...
  1 week ago

• What helps kids to learn? Parents, teacher unions or education bureacrats?

  
  Wintery Knight — Authority: 502
  Christine Kim What’s the best way to help children do well in school? On the one hand, social conservatives on the right favor the traditional family structure, complete with a father who lives in the home and is an involved parent. Parents have an incentive to help children do well in school because they ...
  1 week ago

• Budget Cuts Cause Classroom Sizes to Grow, Kindergartners Suffer the Most by Meredith Kolodner - NY Daily News

  
  Lost in the Ozone... — Authority: 138
  Read original... Kindergarten classes average 25 or more students, and have grown by almost 30% in 58 schools located mostly in the Bronx and Brooklyn. Giancarli for News. Class sizes in city schools jumped by the most in more than a decade this year - and ...
  1 week ago

• 29 schools in Orange out of class-size compliance, DOE info shows (no other district has as many)

  
  Sentinel School Zone — Authority: 440
  Floridas latest class-size compliance list shows 29 Orange County schools are out of whack, with more kids in classrooms than the states class-size rules allow. No other districts in Florida have as many schools out of compliance as Orange. In...
  1 week ago

• Class Sizes Rise Again

  
  Edwize — Authority: 464
  Sunday of Thanksgiving weekend is an odd time for the Dept. of Education to publish the new class size numbers. But a quick look at them suggests why: class sizes rose virtually across the board, for the second year in a row. This occurred despite $150 million in targeted state funding to reduce class sizes in New ...
  1 week ago

• Poll: Class size

  
  Florida Blog — Authority: 149
  What should Florida lawmakers do with the class-size amendment? Ask voters to repeal it Ask voters to stop it at school averages Use the law to smoothe out the rough edges Leave it alone Read the original: Poll: Class size
  1 week ago

• No new communication director for Pasco, after all

  
  Florida Blog — Authority: 149
  Sorry, applicants. Pasco schools superintendent Heather Fiorentino has decided to go another new direction for the districts communications than the one she initially proposed . Sort of. Rather than name a new director of communications from among the dozen applicants, Fiorentino has chosen to freeze the directors job ...
  1 week ago

• Battling the class size amendment: good idea or bad?

  
  Sentinel School Zone — Authority: 440
  In cased you missed it, the Sentinel has run dueling arguments on the beloved -- and controversial-- class size amendment Columnist Mike Thomas argues that class sizes should be left alone. He says they work. The editorial board, however, argues,...
  1 week ago

• School Windows Still Contain Toxic PCBs by Lisa Fogarty - Queens Chronicle

  
  Lost in the Ozone... — Authority: 138
  Read original... By the time they’re in school, most children grow accustomed to hearing their parents echo cautionary instructions so common they’ve become part of the fabric of our society: wash your hands before eating and look both ways before crossing, to name a few. But Naomi Gonzalez, a Bronx mother ...
  2 weeks ago

• Class-size rules? Let voters repeal them, state Senator suggests

  
  Sentinel School Zone — Authority: 440
  State Sen. Mike Bennett, R-Bradenton, has filed a bill that would let voters decide if they want to repeal the 2002 amendment that added class-size rules to the state constitution. The bill, which would need to pass the Florida Senate...
  2 weeks ago

• Council members and DOE at odds over class size data release

  
  GothamSchools Newsroom — Authority: 582
  Days after the deadline for the city’s Department of Education to send class size data to the City Council, council members and the DOE can’t agree on whether the numbers have been released. The argument comes down to a question of whether showing council members documents counts as “releasing” them. A ...
  3 weeks ago

• Class size compliance could be tricky this school-year, commissioner says

  
  Sentinel School Zone — Authority: 440
  Florida school districts are worried -- make that very worried -- about complying with the states class-size law next year, when there will be a head count in every "core" classroom. The Central Florida Public School Boards Coalition is even...
  3 weeks ago

• District puts class size under the microscope

  
  Courier Times Now — Authority: 156
  The Bristol school board tonight to examine the staffing situation at the new Warren Snyder-John Girotti Elementary/Middle School. Board members, at the urging of district parents, directed administrators to analyze class size figures for all pre-kindergarten through eighth-grade school classes at the school off ...
  5 weeks ago

• Smaller class sizes help students? Research finds no definitive answers, FL DOE says

  
  Sentinel School Zone — Authority: 440
  A report to be discussed by the State Board of Education next week summarizes the national research on smaller class sizes and how they relate to student achievement. The conclusion? Its not clear. "Does class size reduction increase student performance?...
  5 weeks ago

• Class Size in Seattle Public Schools

  
  Seattle Public Schools community blog — Authority: 133
  Several requests have been made to have a thread on class size. Heres what I think is out there about this issue. There was a study called Project Star done in Tennessee in 1985 over 4-years which did find that class size did matter. And, from a op-ed from Oregon Live by an Oregon state professor: ...
  5 weeks ago

• Happy Halloween . . .

  
  Florida Blog — Authority: 149
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  5 weeks ago

• Maybe the best teachers should teach more kids

  
  Florida Blog — Authority: 149
  Heres a teacher-quality-related idea that might crash up against Floridas class-size amendment but could dovetail with its efforts to expand virtual schooling. The group Public Impact says in this new report that instead of trying to boost the ranks of top teachers by doing more to recruit, train and retain,maybe ...
  6 weeks ago

• Chatter

  
  I Thought a Think — Authority: 422
  Talked to a couple of principals on Friday who attended the AWSP conference down in Yakima last week. Apparently a couple of State Senators were there who said that they fully expect the budget deficit they have to deal with to roll right past $2 billion dollars and settle--maybe--at right around $2.25 billion. So ...
  6 weeks ago

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