F. Elementary Class Loads Clause Samples

F. Elementary Class Loads. 1. For the life of the contract the District will provide $6001,000,000 each year in an overload elementary classroom account. 2. The District and Association agree to establish an Elementary Class Ratio Committee (ECRC) to address concerns from educators. For the purposes of this Article, ratio is defined as elementary classroom teachers to students in a given classroomat a given grade level band (K-2 and 3-5) and a given school. Additionally, we acknowledge that early planning and preparation are key to reducing class ratio issues in the fall. This Article establishes the ECRC. 3. The Association shall be afforded an opportunity to submit target class size and case load numbers and that information shall be printed in the District’s Proposed Budget Book as an acknowledgement of the Association’s recommendationThe student portion of the ratio shall be calculated by June 30 of a given year for the following year using a school’s ADMw/ADM multiplied by the number of students in the classroom. Each school’s most recently confirmed ADMw and the corresponding ADM from that date will be used. (Example: a school’s ADMw is 657 and the number of students at the school is 450; for a classroom with 25 students the number for the class ratio will be 657/450 X 25 3.4. ADMw is defined by ORS 327.013.