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[quote=Anonymous]State rated capacity for kindergarten is not 30 kids per class. I'm not sure of the exact formula but it should be something like 24 with 5% error depending on the number of classes in each grade. If a school has three or four classes with 30 kids there is enough kids for an additional class. Schools get a certain amount of money per child and more for Title 1, high performing and ESOL to hire additional teachers. Unfortunately what happens at a lot of schools is that when parents don't register until just before the start of school, the school administration just has an estimate of the number of expected children. When that reaches more than the allowed number schools have to hire a teacher the first or second week of school. It happens the other way around too where schools have less kids than estimated ands they have to let a teacher go. Of course this means that kids will get shuffled until hiring gets sorted out. Union contract rules provide until Sept. 30th to move around teachers. Your school should be at least hiring a long term sub and splitting the classes into more manageable numbers until they hire a full time teacher for the new class. [/quote]

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