Bill Text: MO HB1821 | 2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishes smaller class sizes for school districts in Kansas City than the established minimum and desirable standards of the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-05-14 - Referred: Elementary and Secondary Education (H) [HB1821 Detail]

Download: Missouri-2010-HB1821-Introduced.html

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SECOND REGULAR SESSION

HOUSE BILL NO. 1821

95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES HOLSMAN (Sponsor) AND OXFORD (Co-sponsor).

4460L.01I                                                                                                                                                  D. ADAM CRUMBLISS, Chief Clerk

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AN ACT

To amend chapter 160, RSMo, by adding thereto one new section relating to school class size.

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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:

            Section A. Chapter 160, RSMo, is amended by adding thereto one new section, to be known as section 160.067, to read as follows:

            160.067. Notwithstanding any law or administrative rule to the contrary, in any urban school district, as defined in section 160.011, located in a home rule city with more than four hundred thousand inhabitants and located in more than one county, student enrollment in individual classes shall be consistent with the following:

            (1) For grades K-2, class size shall not exceed nineteen students, with a desirable class size of fifteen students or fewer;

            (2) For grades 3-4, class size shall not exceed twenty students, with a desirable class size of seventeen students or fewer;

            (3) For grades 5-6, class size shall not exceed twenty-three students, with a desirable class size of nineteen students or fewer; and

            (4) For grades 7-12, class size shall not exceed twenty-three students, with a desirable class size of twenty students or fewer.

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