tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2586988941850907367.post1177669170568091601..comments2024-03-24T11:39:28.574-04:00Comments on NYC Public School Parents: 14,000Patrick Sullivanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10631038958645725010noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2586988941850907367.post-46507736776589715642009-02-17T15:58:00.000-05:002009-02-17T15:58:00.000-05:00To make the math make sense. The union contract s...To make the math make sense. The union contract stipulates that teachers must teach 25 periods per week. So out of an 8 period day, teachers are teaching 5 of those periods. So at any given time during the day approximately 63% of the 60,000 teachers of NYC are teaching students.<BR/><BR/>This translates into a student to teacher ratio of 29 to 1. By removing 14,000 teachers from the 60,000, you increase that ratio from 29:1 to 38:1.<BR/><BR/>This is guesswork but it's better than randomly adding 10 students after calculation.Mr. Dugonghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06694087357175781376noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2586988941850907367.post-76485931839998851952009-02-17T10:32:00.000-05:002009-02-17T10:32:00.000-05:00I'm still stumped. My colleagues and I regularly ...I'm still stumped. My colleagues and I regularly get classes of 34, and with various loopholes, they often go higher.NYC Educatorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12188066345722781723noreply@blogger.com