The trend toward waiving smaller class size in Delaware school districts found an exception last week when the Red Clay School Board rejected it’s district’s request.
It deadlocked on a 3-to-3 vote.
State law requires class size in public schools from kindergarten through 3rd grade to have no more than 22 students.
And yet, last year, all but three of Delaware’s 15 traditional school districts granted waivers.
Those three were Caesar Rodney, Indian River and Woodbridge.
Pati Nash with the Red Clay school district told the Wilmington News Journal that school officials were working on a plan that could require 19 new paraprofessionals, new nine teachers and a price tag of $2 million.
Meanwhile, Yvonne Johnson, president of the state PTA, told the News Journal that parents are getting tired of seeing their districts waive the class size requirement.
And, waivers came under fire recently with two members of the Christina School Board voting against a waiver.
