ARTICLE IV CLASS SIZE

East Greenwich School District

4-1 Class size shall be determined as follows:

4-1.1 In grades K-3, the size of the classes shall be approximately twenty (20) pupils per class and in grades 4-5 shall be approximately twenty-five (25) pupils per class.

4-1.2 Except as provided in 4-2 and 4-3, the limits set forth in 4-1.1 may be exceeded only to this extent:

As of October 30, one (1) pupil.

Provided, that there shall be an equal distribution of such additional students among teachers in each grade level within a school.

4-1.3 Secondary school classes, with the exception of physical education classes, shall not exceed thirty (30) pupils per class.

4-1.4 Classes containing concentrations of disadvantaged pupils shall be reduced in size as rapidly as practicable to a number which permits an optimum learning environment for such pupils.

4-1.5 No regular classroom teacher shall be assigned the class responsibility for more than one hundred twenty-five (125) students regardless of the size of their classes. This number shall be proportionately reduced for teachers with fewer than five (5) regular classes.

4-1.6 Secondary physical education teachers shall not be assigned a class responsibility of more than two hundred fifty (250) students regardless of individual class size. In the event of a true small scale scheduling difficulty, class responsibility for secondary physical education teachers shall not exceed two hundred sixty (260) students.

4-2 Class size limits may be exceeded for the purposes of innovation and/or experimentation upon consultation among the administration, the teachers involved, and the Association. This would include music performance ensembles. The parties support innovative scheduling and curricular specialization as well as reasonable flexibility in grouping or regrouping necessary to such experimentation or specialization.

4-3 Class size limits may be exceeded in the elementary physical education, health, art, music, and library classes by the addition of no more than four (4) mainstreamed students per class.

4-4 Middle School Class Size

For the duration of this Agreement, section 4-4 of the CBA shall be amended to reflect that the four core subjects for 6th  and 7th  graders will meet five times per week, while 8th graders will retain the existing schedule of five classes over four days. A sample of the weekly teaching blocks, inclusive of individual teacher planning time, common planning time and Lancer learning time is appended hereto as Exhibit 1.

For the duration of this Agreement, section 2-6.2b shall be amended to reflect overall weekly teaching time as 1060 minutes, weekly planning time of 265 minutes, weekly common planning time of 212 minutes, weekly homeroom/advisory of 50 minutes and weekly Lancer learning time of 100-125 minutes, as depicted in Exhibit 2. This provision only applies to faculty for 6th  and 7th grade team teachers.

The overall class load for each core subject matter teacher shall not exceed 112, and no individual class shall exceed twenty-nine (29) students. In the event the overall load exceeds 112 or the class size exceeds 29, said teacher shall be compensated for each student at the rate of $3.00 per day.

4-5 Consistent with its current practices, the District shall collaborate with all District­ wide specialists identified in Article XVIII during the first month of the school year to provide, as may be reasonably necessary in the determination of the District, that each specialist's work and case load is evenly distributed among students and school buildings so as not to unduly burden the employee and to comply with the District's commitment under Policy number 8515 to all students serviced by the specialist.