PTA URGES YOU TO VOTE NO ON AMENDMENT 8

The PTA, both locally and statewide, urge you to look at the facts behind Amendment 8.

Amendment 8 would bring back crowded classrooms.  This amendment proposes to revise the current constitution and calculate class size on a school wide average rather than actual class size. PTA supports class size reduction proposals that consider actual class size, meaning the number of students in a teacher’s room for whom that teacher is accountable.

Florida PTA opposed Amendment 8 when it was moving through the Legislature and testified against it in both the House and Senate Committees.

Grade Level 2002-03 Class Size Average Current Average If Amendment 8 Passes
                     
                           Current Size                    If Amendment 8 Passes


Pre-K-3                16                                      21

Grades 4-8          19                                      27

Grades 9-12       22                                       30


For additional information visit:   
http://www.floridapta.org/Legislation.html