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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I just don't understand why its controversial to increase the title 1 class sizes. If there is a cap (21?) why not staff up to the cap? A class size of 10 at one school when other schools have 30+ per class is bizarre.[/quote]

I'm not sure where your confusion is. Hypothetically, if there are 46 kids in 2nd grade, at a non-Title 1 school, they would be divided into 2 classes, each with 23 kids. But in a Title 1 school, where there are apparently caps for grades K-3 of 22 kids per class, there are two possibilities: 2 classes with 22 kids each and 1 class with only 2 kids OR 3 classes with 15-16 kids each. Either way, there will be 3 classes at the Title 1 school, needing 3 teachers. The optics may look bad when you say, hey how come they have only 15 kids in a class, but, really, when you say "staff up to the cap" are you really advocating they do classes of 22, 22 and 2, just so they can say, hey only one of the classes is below the cap? That's goofy.[/quote]

What they could do though is use title 1 money for that extra teacher they need instead of getting three teachers through the FCPS formula and then spending all their title 1 money on an instructional coach.[/quote]

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