FIRST REGULAR SESSION
94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE HOLSMAN.
Read 1st time March 29, 2007 and copies ordered printed.
D. ADAM CRUMBLISS, Chief Clerk
AN ACT
To amend chapter 160, RSMo, by adding thereto one new section relating to school class size.
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, 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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