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Plano applies for second round of class size waivers
By Conner Hammett, chammett@starlocalnews.com
A request for state class size waivers for 18 elementary class sections was authorized by the Plano ISD Board of Trustees at its Tuesday meeting.
Per the Texas Education Code, classrooms in kindergarten through grade 4 must not exceed 22 students to a teacher. The code does allow exceptions provided the district applies for a waiver for each section that exceeds the maximum number of students.
Fifteen Plano campuses this year are projected to have more than 22 students in at least one classroom at either the second, third or fourth grade level. Three of those campuses will have two sections exceeding the 22-to-1 cap. No sections in kindergarten or first grade will exceed the mandate and require a waiver.
"Some of these might not ever get the waiver if they go over the counts, because we have some students who start to show up after Labor Day," he said. "So some of these could come off the waiver list."
Last year was the first time the district applied for class size waivers. The action accompanied the laying off of hundreds of employees as a result of a $24 million funding cut due to the statewide reductions in education funding ordered by the 82nd Texas Legislature. The district needed waivers for 52 classrooms at 20 campuses last year.
"We will have a better count as the waivers start coming toward us, but there were very few districts in the entire Metroplex and the state that didn't go over the 22-to-1 cap," Matkin said.
The district will reassess class sizes at the October board meeting if additional enrollment calls for further discussion, Matkin said.
By the numbers:
A campus-by-campus breakdown of which elementary schools will exceed the state's maximum class size in at least one section
Andrews: One third and one fourth grade classroom
Barksdale: One second grade classroom
Beverly: One third grade classroom
Boggess: One second grade classroom
Brinker: One third and one fourth grade classroom
Gulledge: One third grade classroom
Haun: One third grade classroom
Hughston: One second grade classroom
Hunt: One third grade and one fourth grade classroom
Mathews: One third grade classroom
Miller: One second grade classroom
Shepard: One third grade classroom
Skaggs: One second grade classroom
Wells: One third grade classroom
Wyatt: One second grade classroom
Source: Plano ISD
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