Atlanta plans to move teachers, reduce class sizes
Atlanta’s school system plans to redistribute teachers and break up large classes by Oct. 1.
Superintendent Erroll Davis and his staff told the Atlanta Board of Education on Tuesday they’re evaluating which class sizes turned out to be too big because of enrollments that were higher than expected.
The school board voted to hire additional teachers during this summer’s budget process in order to have class sizes as large as 25 students for kindergartners and up to 35 students for high schoolers.
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Mark Niesse is an enterprise reporter and covers elections and Georgia government for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and is considered an expert on elections and voting. Before joining the AJC, he worked for The Associated Press in Atlanta, Honolulu and Montgomery, Alabama. He also reported for The Daily Report and The Santiago Times in Chile.
