"No" to Florida's class size.Efforts to meet a voter-approved mandate to crunch (1) To process data. See number crunching. (2) To compress data. See data compression. 1. (jargon) crunch - To process, usually in a time-consuming or complicated way. class sizes in Florida are turning soft, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the St. Petersburg Times
The St. Petersburg Times is a daily newspaper based in St. Petersburg, Florida, that serves the larger Tampa Bay area. . "The class-size amendment will never be implemented," Florida's Education Commissioner Jim Home was quoted as saying at a recent meeting of the Board of Governors, which oversees higher education higher education Study beyond the level of secondary education. Institutions of higher education include not only colleges and universities but also professional schools in such fields as law, theology, medicine, business, music, and art. in Florida. The amendment orders the state to give schools money to lower class sizes. By 2010, pre-K through grade 3 classes can have no more than 18 children; grades 4 through 8 no more than 22 students, and high school classes no more than 25 kids. This year, the state spent $517 million to reduce class sizes, enough to cover a quarter of the state's university system budget. |
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