Smaller classes, but how?

• Position: Stateline - Brief Article

Florida voters approved Amendment 9 last November to significantly reduce class sizes in all public schools. Now legislators, educators and the governor are trying to figure out just how to accomplish that. The mandate requires the state to cap class sizes in kindergarten through third grade at 18 students, grades four through eight at 22 students and those in high school at 25, all by 2010. The governor's proposal includes building new schools, allowing more students to transfer to charter schools that are exempt from the limits and providing parents of students at crowded schools with...