Sunday, February 6, 2011

Luna's Plan and smaller class size

Luna's education reform plan is causing much discussion. One of the main complaints is that class size will increase if 700 teachers were not rehired. I actually found a way to decrease class size in secondary classes with fewer teachers. Let me show you how.

1. There are going to be 2772 fewer classrooms available with 462 fewer secondary teachers.
2. There are 2497 administrators and councilors. If 2000 of them taught one class per day or monitored one online class per day this would regain 2000 of the 2772 lost classrooms leaving only 772 to make up.
3. Of the 7050 secondary teachers that will be left under Luna's plan, if 4000 of them monitored an online class during their prep period, there would actually be 3228 new classroom which would reduce class size from 18.1 to 17.9 students per teachers.

One of the points that Luna maybe trying to demonstrate is that we can and should use the human resources we have more fully. I don't think Luna is saying that we have too many teachers rather we need to utilize our resources more wisely.
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