{"id":40399,"date":"2013-10-06T15:40:51","date_gmt":"2013-10-06T15:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/s-c-_education_department_proposes_eliminating_class_size_maximums_for_many\/"},"modified":"2013-10-06T15:40:51","modified_gmt":"2013-10-06T15:40:51","slug":"s-c-_education_department_proposes_eliminating_class_size_maximums_for_many","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=40399","title":{"rendered":"S.C. Education Department proposes eliminating class size maximums for many grades, subjects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fifth-graders\u2019 desks in Vicki Robertson\u2019s class are arranged in clusters for two reasons: It\u2019s easier for students to do group work, and it gives her 29 students more space to move around the room.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s one of the adjustments the Pinckney Elementary teacher has made to accommodate her large classes. She has 30 students in one English lesson, which is the maximum allowed by state regulation.<\/p>\n<p>So what does Robertson think about the state potentially eliminating the cap on the size of some classes statewide?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOh wow! I\u2019m making it work with the space I have,\u201d\u009d she said. \u201cBut when you have more students, they have more needs and challenges.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/article\/20131005\/PC16\/131009697\/1177\/sc-education-department-proposes-eliminating-class-size-maximums-for-many-grades-subjects\">Read it all<\/a>.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fifth-graders\u2019 desks in Vicki Robertson\u2019s class are arranged in clusters for two reasons: It\u2019s easier for students to do group work, and it gives her 29 students more space to move around the room. That\u2019s one of the adjustments the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=40399\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,54,111,151,619],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-south-carolina","category-education","category-politics-in-general","category-state-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}