Orlando Principal Says School Will Adapt to Class Size Caps
Friday, April 23, 2010
By: Tom Parkinson

04/23/10 - When Florida voters go to the polls in November, they'll find a proposal asking them to reconsider an amendment, passed by Floridians in 2002, mandating strict limits on public school class sizes. But that vote will come too late to change things for this fall, when the new caps will just be going into in effect.

For the coming school year, the state constitution limits classes to 18 students in pre-K through third grade, 22 students in fourth through eighth grades and 25 in high school classes.
Those limits apply only to classes in so-called core subjects like Math, English and Science.  There's not much money available to hire new teachers, so some schools say they may have to move instructors out of other areas, like Art, P.E. or Music to teach those core classes.
For a perspective from the frontline, 90.7’s Tom Parkinson spoke with Dr. Brenda Cunningham, principal of Waterford Elementary School in Orlando and asked her if she would consider shifting some of her teachers around.
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