Lowering Class Size: If Not Now, When?
Whereas, The District is committed to creating the most enriching academic environment for all students, which includes a reduction in class-size;“
– LAUSD School Board
On June 18, 2013, the Los Angeles Unified School District’s (LAUSD) School Board voted for a resolution that directed their “Superintendent to examine the feasibility of implementing class-size reduction for the 2014-15 academic calendar and to develop a long term, class-size reduction strategy that will yield positive academic results”. In the over five years that have passed since the resolution should have been implemented, the District has had four different Superintendents. The class size ratio has remained exactly the same.
In 2015, KNBC ran a story about “Parents, teachers and students [who were] fed up with class sizes” at Hamilton High School, a school with about 3,000 students. In that school year, there were 66 classes with more than 40 students. In the previous year, there had been 110 CONTINUE READING: Lowering Class Size: If Not Now, When?
