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Colby Cosh on class size:The McGuinty plan is a lot more like California's gargantuan Class Size Reduction (CSR) project, implemented in 1996. California introduced a 20-to-1 statewide cap, like the one Premier McGuinty proposes, in the same grades. The final "keystone report" on the CSR project was released in September, 2002, and might make Ontario parents a little nervous.Incidentally, there was a show on the local PBS affiliate yesterday about the California public education system; it highlighted two school districts in particular, noting that each was limited in its tax support to the same $6,000 per pupil, but indicated that the reason one was doing much better than the other was that in the wealthier district, an organization connected with the school had raised nearly $1,000 per student in private funds. Looking at these two districts, if per-pupil spending truly differs by only 15%, either that marginal spending was immensely valuable or something aside from money is seriously wrong in the poorer district. (I don't know enough to indicate whether it's the fault of district administrators; it may be misallocation of funds, but it may well be cultural.) |
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