Teacher Vs. Student Ratios Grow

The Wisconsin Budget Project is out with a new report showing the numbers of

public school teachers dropped by 43 hundred statewide, in a seven year period ending in May of 2012. Making student versus teacher classroom numbers a bit higher this school year. Steve Salerno with the La Crosse School District says it’s something they watch all the time.

 

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The Budget Project cited figures from the National Center for Education Statistics, showing that Wisconsin had 15.5 students for each teacher in the 2011-12 school year…..up from 14.3 students per instructor in the 2004-’05 term.