The Broward County School Board struggles to come up with ideas, as they prepare for yet another budget cut this year. On top of the $130 million already cut, the Broward County School District can expect another $140 million cut for the upcoming school year in of 2009-2010.
An idea being tossed around at the time is increasing the number of classes students currently have from 6 to 7 periods in a day. Teachers in the county would have to teach 6 of the 7 periods of the day, instead of the current 5 out of 6 periods. Though the length of the school day would remain the same, the number of students a teach would have would be increased, of course resulting in one additional classroom full of term papers and grading. This issue is predicted to be the heat of discussion amongst high school educators once the idea is officially presented.
But with many other issues on the line such as the halt in school construction, including that for schools in need of expansion and construction of new schools in areas where there are just too many students, will Broward County be able to keep up the highly rated schools? And will struggling schools fall even farther behind?
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