The Board of Education has budgeted $150 million on instruction alone, for small classes of 12 to 15 students, yet many schools had just six to eight students in a class, and some had as few as three.
Urban is that rare city school with adequate teaching staffing for small classes, in part because there are no deans or assistant principals and everyone, including the principal, teaches -- and answers the phone.
He is evasive on the former and on the latter comes close to arguing that, although unqualified teachers may be all right for small classes of well-mannered private-school kids, they are no good for large and unruly state-school classes.
Known for small classes and a focus on undergraduate education, most such colleges also require--from their younger, newer faculty members, at least--substantial research activity.
We also considered a fivefold cross validation splits a set of 20 compounds into 5 subsets of 4 compounds each, so it is unsurprising that the models do not maintain their predictive ability for small classes.
Moreover, interpretation of results for small classes 3 and 4 is less dependable.
It provides for smaller class sizes and it treats teachers like the professionals that they are.
"That would help address the need for smaller class size without a large cost," he said.
That's the money that pays for smaller class size and more schools in Queens, which are so overcrowded.
