Under his proposal, crowded classrooms would not be an option for saving dough. In elementary schools, his bill would set a maximum of 25 students for each teacher in core classes of reading, writing, mathematics, science, history and geography. For junior high classes the maximum students in a class would be 27, and in senior high schools it would be 30. The law would severely hinder the ability of administrators to save money while protecting their salaries by simply shoving one group of students in with another. Tupa says his bill has nothing to do with Boulder's school closure proposal, but I say it addresses the underlying philosophy behind school closures.
Budget constraints cause some school districts to make a deal with the devil.
To save money, they increase class size which creates a problem for teachers. I know from experience you can't be effective in a classroom that's crammed with too many students. We shouldn't solve one problem by creating a worse one. Call and tell school district administrators to look inward before eliminating classrooms. These people were hired to serve our children, not feather their own nests.