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Class sizes begin to rise again in California schools
- 11-20-2009
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California Report
As schools around the state opened for business this fall, many families were in for an unpleasant surprise. Early elementary classes in many school districts swelled to levels not seen in more than a decade. At Oliveira Elementary School, in a quiet residential neighborhood in the Bay Area city of Fremont, kindergarten teacher Cheryl Accurso faces 30 kids each day, many of them just four years old. "My biggest worry is that I'm not touching every child each day," said Accurso. "There are days when some kids walk out I think: Did I work with that child today? Whereas when I had 20 in my classroom, I knew that each and every day I was doing something that would benefit every child." (more...)
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