Newton Class Sizes Down Slightly; School Committee Focuses on Need for Override
Several Newton School Committee members said class sizes will only remain stable if the March 12 override package passes.
Although the district showed slight improvement in this year's class size numbers, Newton School Committee members Monday night said the March 12 override must pass in order to keep class sizes stable. "The overall conversation is about how our class sizes are holding steady, but there are 250 more kids coming in next year and there are many teachers we need to hire to serve those children well," School Committee Chair Claire Sokoloff said. According to the district's annual class size report, which was presented last night by Deputy Superintendent/Chief Administrative Officer Sandy Guryan, both the elementary and middle school class sizes are down after a ten-year high reported last year. High school class sizes are also down slightly. …
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4:39 pm on Wednesday, February 27, 2013
You did read the footnote on that report - the one that warns against using aggregate SAT data to draw conclusions about educational attainment? You must realize that in 1972, the number of students who attended college (and therefore took the SAT) was much lower, and was a self-selected group of the higher-performing students. The group taking the SAT in 2010 was much larger and much more … more ›