Grades 6 -12. 4.2.1: The parties agree that each site administrator shall establish a bell schedule which will ensure that sufficient instructional minutes are taught to qualify for longer instructional day monies.
4.2.2: No unit member shall be required to perform assignments on a normal day off.
Grades 6 -12. In Grades 6-12, the District will maintain an enrollment of no more than 33 students per class period. Exception to this restriction will be the Performing Arts and P.E. departments. The District will limit the total student enrollment for each Bargaining Unit Member in these departments to no more than two hundred fifty (250) students per day. Additional Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) Concentration Grant funding will support increased and improved services to maintain lower class sections with no more than 55 students per class. The District will make a reasonable effort to limit laboratory class enrollment at or below the number of available work stations.
Grades 6 -12. It shall be the intention of the School District to equalize classroom placements whenever possible.
Grades 6 -12. 6.2.1. The District shall staff the middle school and high school by providing 1 FTE bargaining unit member on campus for every 29 FTE students, taking into account all classroom teaching positions, including resource specialist (RSP), learning center, and special day class (SDC) teachers.
6.2.2. An individual teacher’s average class size shall be a maximum of 31 for courses taught in English, Foreign Language, Math, History/Social Studies, and Science. This average class size under 6.2.2 and the following sub-paragraphs will become effective after five consecutive weeks following the start of each semester/trimester or ten consecutive working days during the remainder of each semester. Classes for which a stipend is listed in Appendix D shall be excluded from the provisions referenced in 6.3.2.
6.2.2.1 The class size average shall be calculated based on the total number of students taught during a single period, excluding teachers’ assistants (e.g., if multiple levels of foreign language are taught in the same class period, all students at all levels shall be counted as a single “class” for purposes of calculating the class size average).
6.2.2.2 When the enrollment of student(s) exceeds the class size average limit, but is not sufficient to reorganize classes in order to open an additional class or section, or where only one teacher within a school teaches classes that can accommodate the needs of the enrolling students (for reasons such as program offering, qualifications, specialized training/authorization, etc.), thereby preventing the opening of an additional class or section, the District may place students in such classes, and the receiving teacher shall receive an additional: • $400 per year, pro-rated by semester, if the teacher’s average class size is higher than 31 but less than 32, • $800 per year, pro-rated by semester, if the teacher’s average class size is 32 or higher but less than 33, and • $1,200 per year, pro-rated by semester, if the teacher’s average class size is 33 or higher.
6.2.2.3 Teachers with a mixed assignment (courses taught in departments described in 6.2.2 and classes not in said departments) will have their class average calculated on the basis of those courses taught in departments listed in 6.2.
Grades 6 -12. 6.2.1. The District shall staff the middle school and high school by providing 1 FTE bargaining unit member on campus for every 29 FTE students, taking into account all classroom teaching positions, including resource specialist (RSP), learning center, and special day class (SDC) teachers.
