Common use of CLASS SIZE PROVISIONS Clause in Contracts

CLASS SIZE PROVISIONS. a. The following class size provisions may be waived due to severe funding cutbacks, levy failure, significant enrollment decline, or other emergencies as determined by the Board of Directors which may occur in the District. Grades Kindergarten (K) through three (3) twenty-three (23) per day Grades four (4) through six (6) twenty-six (26) per day Grades seven (7) through twelve (12) twenty-nine (29) per period K-6 Music & PE twenty-nine (29) per period Grade 7 through (12) P.E. forty (40) per period Grade 7 through (12) Music forty (40) per period b. Teachers who have special education students in their classroom will be able to count those students up to 1.5 FTE if those students require accommodations and modifications that the teacher must provide in their academic program. The special education administrator, with regular and special education teacher input, will assign weighting factors to special education students for class size determination only. Administrators or teachers may request the student weighting process when class sizes are approaching overload status. These weighting factors will reflect at least the following challenges for a regular classroom teacher who will be responsible for mainstreaming this student in their classroom. 1. Behavior challenges/modifications 2. Planning for accommodations in curriculum 3. Majority of school day spent in the regular education setting 4. Providing a different education program in the classroom The weighting factors will range from 1.0 (no added weight) to 1.5 (severely disabled students that are still in a classroom, without support). This value will be kept for the school year in the Special Education office, but may be adjusted as student schedules or services change. Time in classroom and academic level discrepancy will be considered as factors for determining overload resolutions. Special education staff will take part in the resolution process. c. In the interest of developing a quality band and choir program, the enrollment in a 5th through 12th grade band class may exceed the maximum numbers in paragraph a. above, unless the class composition creates management issues.

CLASS SIZE PROVISIONS. a. The following class size provisions prov1s10ns may be waived due to severe funding cutbacks, levy failure, significant enrollment decline, or other emergencies as determined by the Board of Directors ofDirectors which may occur in the District. Grades Kindergarten (K) through three (3) twenty-three (23) per day Grades four (4) through six (6) twenty-six (26) per day Grades seven (7) through twelve (12) K-6 Music & PE Grade 7 through (12) P.E. Grade 7 through (12) Music twenty-three (23) perday twenty-six (26) per day twenty-nine (29) per period K-6 Music & PE twenty-nine (29) per period Grade 7 through (12) P.E. forty (40) per period Grade 7 through (12) Music forty (40) per period b. Teachers who have special education students in their classroom will be able to count those students up to 1.5 FTE if those students require accommodations and modifications that the teacher must provide in their academic program. The special education administrator, with regular and special education teacher input, will assign weighting factors to special education students for class size determination only. Administrators or teachers may request the student weighting process when class sizes are approaching overload status. These weighting factors will reflect at least the following atleast thefollowing challenges for a fora regular classroom teacher who will be responsible for mainstreaming this student in their classroom. 1. Behavior challenges/modifications 2. Planning for accommodations in curriculum 3. Majority of school day spent in the regular education setting 4. Providing a different education program in the classroom The weighting factors will range from 1.0 (no added weight) to 1.5 (severely disabled students that are still in a classroom, without support). This value will be kept for the school year in the Special Education office, but may be adjusted as student schedules or services change. Time in classroom and academic level discrepancy will be considered as factors for determining overload resolutions. Special education staff will take part in the resolution process. c. In the interest of developing ofdeveloping a quality band and choir program, the enrollment in a 5th through 12th It" grade band class may exceed the maximum numbers in paragraph a. a above, unless the class composition creates management issues.