Common use of - CLASS SIZE/STUDENT ASSIGNMENT Clause in Contracts

- CLASS SIZE/STUDENT ASSIGNMENT. A. The parties expressly agree that the number of students assigned to an instructional classroom employee and student caseloads assigned to other nonsupervisory certificated employees impact both the workload of the employee and the success of the educational programs of the District. The parties also agree that the unique mix of students in any particular class has an impact on workload and instruction. 1. Within each school, employees' classes will be composed so that the classroom responsibilities of the respective employees in a grade, department or program shall be equitably apportioned. 2. Students with special needs (e.g., special education, 504, with elementary non-Special Education behavior contracts, and ELL students), both newly enrolled and in the spring for assignment for the following year, will be equitably assigned among the regular education teachers within a school building with special consideration for the curricular/program needs of the students. When the severity of student needs or number of students are distributed unequally, the District shall achieve equity by providing accommodations to the teacher (e.g., the number of students in the class section, overall daily load, educational assistants, or other assistance). 3. After the 10th student day, teachers shall be given prior notice of any new student entering their class. Prior to the student entering the class, the student will be provided a desk, required technology for the grade level, and any other supplies offered to students in the class. Prior to moving current elementary students between grade-level classes, the potentially impacted employees shall be consulted and given an opportunity to suggest alternative placement of the student unless there are FERPA concerns or there is a threat posed by the student. Prior to or within 48 hours of the assignment of an IEP student or student with special needs into a regular classroom the receiving teacher will be notified. 4. The District will identify optional staff development or training opportunities for employees involved with special education or special needs students. 5. For classes where there exist physical limitations as to the safe or practical number of students or operating student work stations (such as classes in which instruction is largely dependent upon the use of special equipment, machines or other mechanical devices or special work stations of a highly individualized nature), the maximum number of students in such classes will be determined by the building administrator after consultation with and receiving the advice of the teacher providing the instruction in the classroom. For Physical Education classes, adequate equipment shall be provided to meet the class size assigned. B. In an effort to assist schools in addressing class size, the District will allocate certificated staff resource units in such a manner as to permit schools to achieve District Class Size/Case Load Goals to the extent possible, given the available resources. The District and Association expressly agree that the following are goals and are not class size limits except as otherwise provided below and that it may become necessary to assign more students than the goal to an employee. It is further recognized by both parties that revenue sources are limited and there are additional program and operational needs of the District. In order to monitor and assess District achievement of these goals, a report shall be provided to the Association based on enrollment on each student count date of the year (the first student day of October through June). For elementary goals, the report will include school, employee, number of students, and grade level. For secondary goals, the report will include school, employee, class subject, number of students in each class, and an aggregate total of students assigned to the employee. For elementary class sizes over the goals identified below (goals 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5), the District will compensate the affected employee at the rate of $15 for each student day above the identified goal when one or more students are assigned above the goal. For the elementary class size goal for specialists (goal 11), the District will compensate the affected employee at the rate of $2 for each student day for each class above the identified goal when one or more students are assigned above the goal. Student counts will be made on the first student day of each month of the school year beginning in October. Payment amounts will be based on the count day for the remainder of each month. Payment for September shall be made retroactively based on the October count date. Students shall be evenly assigned to teachers at each grade level to assure equitable class sizes. A student who spends fifty-percent (50%) of the student-day in a teacher’s classroom for instructional purposes shall be assigned to that teacher’s student count.

- CLASS SIZE/STUDENT ASSIGNMENT. A. The parties expressly agree that the number of students assigned to an instructional classroom employee and student caseloads assigned to other nonsupervisory certificated employees impact both the workload of the employee and the success of the educational programs of the District. The parties also agree that the unique mix of students in any particular class has an impact on workload and instruction. 1. Within each school, employees' classes will be composed so that the classroom responsibilities of the respective employees in a grade, department or program shall be equitably apportioned. 2. Students with special needs (e.g., special education, 504, with elementary non-Special Education behavior contracts, 504 and ELL students), both newly enrolled and in the spring for assignment for the following year, will be equitably assigned among the regular education teachers within a school building with special consideration for the curricular/program needs of the students. When the severity of student needs or number of students are distributed unequally, the District shall achieve equity by providing accommodations to the teacher (e.g., the number of students in the class section, overall daily load, educational assistants, or other assistance). 3. After the 10th student day, teachers shall be given prior notice of any new student entering their class. Prior to the student entering the class, the student will be provided a desk, required technology for the grade level, and any other supplies offered to students in the class. Prior to moving current elementary students between grade-level classes, the potentially impacted employees shall be consulted and given an opportunity to suggest alternative placement of the student unless there are FERPA concerns or there is a threat posed by the student. Prior to or within 48 hours of the assignment of an IEP student or student with special needs into a regular classroom the receiving teacher will be notified. 4. The District will identify optional staff development or training opportunities for employees involved with special education or special needs students. 5. For classes where there exist physical limitations as to the safe or practical number of students or operating student work stations (such as classes in which instruction is largely dependent upon the use of special equipment, machines or other mechanical devices or special work stations of a highly individualized nature), the maximum number of students in such classes will be determined by the building administrator after consultation with and receiving the advice of the teacher providing the instruction in the classroom. For Physical Education classes, adequate equipment shall be provided to meet the class size assigned. B. In an effort to assist schools in addressing class size, the District will allocate certificated staff resource units in such a manner as to permit schools to achieve District Class Size/Case Load Goals to the extent possible, given the available resources. The District and Association expressly agree that the following are goals and are not class size limits except as otherwise provided below and that it may become necessary to assign more students than the goal to an employee. It is further recognized by both parties that revenue sources are limited and there are additional program and operational needs of the District. In order to monitor and assess District achievement of these goals, a report shall be provided to the Association based on enrollment on each student count date of the year (the first student day of October through June). For elementary goals, the report will include school, employee, number of students, and grade level. For secondary goals, the report will include school, employee, class subject, number of students in each class, and an aggregate total of students assigned to the employee. For elementary class sizes over the goals identified below (goals 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 56), the District will compensate the affected employee at the rate of $15 for each student day above the identified goal when one or more students are assigned above the goal. For the elementary class size goal for specialists (goal 1112), the District will compensate the affected employee at the rate of $2 for each student day for each class above the identified goal when one or more students are assigned above the goal. Student counts will be made on the first student day of each month of the school year beginning in October. Payment amounts will be based on the count day for the remainder of each month. Payment for September shall be made retroactively based on the October count date. Students shall be evenly assigned to teachers at each grade level to assure equitable class sizes. A student who spends fifty-percent (50%) of the student-day in a teacher’s classroom for instructional purposes shall be assigned to that teacher’s student count. Any compensation provided by Section 9.02.B paragraph two will be suspended for the duration of the Agreement.

- CLASS SIZE/STUDENT ASSIGNMENT. A. The parties expressly agree that the number of students assigned to an instructional classroom employee and student caseloads assigned to other nonsupervisory certificated employees impact both the workload of the employee and the success of the educational programs of the District. The parties also agree that the unique mix of students in any particular class has an impact on workload and instruction. 1. Within each school, employees' classes will be composed so that the classroom responsibilities of the respective employees in a grade, department or program shall be equitably apportioned. 2. Students with special needs (e.g.Assignment of IEP identified students will result in an equitable apportionment, special education, 504, with elementary non-Special Education behavior contracts, and ELL students), both newly enrolled and in the spring for assignment for the following year, will be equitably assigned among the regular education teachers within a school building with special consideration for the curricular/program needs nature and extent of the students. When disability, among the severity of student needs or number of students are distributed unequally, the District shall achieve equity by providing accommodations to the teacher (e.g., the number of students regular education classroom teachers at each school in the class section, overall daily load, educational assistants, or other assistance)Spring for assignment the following year. All newly enrolled IEP students will be equitably apportioned among the regular education classroom teachers. 3. After the 10th student day, teachers shall be given prior notice of any new student entering their class. Prior to the student entering the class, the student will be provided a desk, required technology for the grade level, and any other supplies offered to students in the class. Prior to moving current elementary students between grade-level classes, the potentially impacted employees shall be consulted and given an opportunity to suggest alternative placement of the student unless there are FERPA concerns or there is a threat posed by the student. Prior to or within 48 hours of the assignment of an IEP student or student with special needs into a regular classroom the receiving teacher will be notified. 4. The District will identify optional staff development or training opportunities for employees involved with special education or special needs students. 5. For classes where there exist physical limitations as to the safe or practical number of students or operating student work stations (such as classes in which instruction is largely dependent upon the use of special equipment, machines or other mechanical devices or special work stations of a highly individualized nature), the maximum number of students in such classes will be determined by the building administrator after consultation with and receiving the advice of the teacher providing the instruction in the classroom. For Physical Education classes, adequate equipment shall be provided to meet the class size assigned. B. In an effort to assist schools in addressing class size, the District will allocate certificated staff resource units in such a manner as to permit schools to achieve District Class Size/Case Load Goals to the extent possible, given the available resources. The District and Association expressly agree that the following are goals and are not class size limits except as otherwise provided below and that it may become necessary to assign more students than the goal to an employee. It is further recognized by both parties that revenue sources are limited and there are additional program and operational needs of the District. In order to monitor and assess District achievement of these goals, a report shall be provided to the Association based on enrollment on each student count date of the year (fourth student day in the first month, and the first student day of October through JuneMay). For elementary goals, the report will include school, employee, number of students, and grade level. For secondary goals, the report will include school, employee, class subject, number of students in each class, and an aggregate total of students assigned to the employee. For elementary class sizes over Based on the goals identified below (goals 1, 2, 3, 4, reports of October and 5)March, the District will compensate shall inform the affected parents/guardians of students who have been assigned to an employee at a grade level or class subject section that exceeds the rate of $15 for each student day above the identified goal when one or more students are assigned above the goal. For the elementary class size goal for specialists (goal 11), the District will compensate the affected employee at the rate of $2 for each student day for each class above the identified goal when one or more students are assigned above the caseload goal. Student counts The information will be made on the first student day of provided after each month of the school year beginning in October. Payment amounts will be based on the count day for the remainder of each month. Payment for September shall be made retroactively based on the October count date. Students shall be evenly assigned to teachers at each grade level to assure equitable class sizes. A student who spends fifty-percent (50%) of the student-day in a teacher’s classroom for instructional purposes shall be assigned to that teacher’s student countreport and include specific information regarding both daily load and section goals.