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Showing posts with label class size. Show all posts
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Thursday, January 8, 2009

School Board Considers Class Size Increase

More crowded classrooms could be in the future for students in Georgia public schools. The state’s school board is scheduled to vote today on a plan that would temporarily raise the state-mandated limit on class size by two students per class. Schools superintendent Kathy Cox wants the limit hiked to help Georgia’s 180 school districts save $200-million. That would be the cost of hiring new teachers in the face of historic budget shortfalls in Georgia.

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