Seattle Education News Roundup
KUOW is reporting a sticking point in the SEA and SPS contract negotiations - class size . Yes, SPS wants to go bigger in the upper grades. Seattle Education Association President Jonathan Knapp says the district’s latest proposal, made last week, would increase class sizes in Seattle by two students per class in grades four through twelve. That would create average class sizes of 30 students in fourth and fifth grades, and 32 students in grades six through 12. Class sizes in grades one through three would remain the same. Knapp says a survey by the National Education Association earlier this year found Washington state has the fourth-largest average class size in the nation. According to the report, the district is using the capacity management issue as the problem. I gently point out, who's fault is that? And, what happens in three years with the next contract? If I were a teacher I might say okay to this upping of class ...