This is part 2 of a multipart series. I encourage all readers to also view part 1 here.
Unfortunately, the red flags continue to stack upon the previous five detailed yesterday for Pathways in Education’s (PIE’s) charter application.
Red flag six: The student-teacher ratio is astronomically high for an alternative school.
The budget allocates for only 6 FTE classroom teachers. At an anticipated enrollment of 300 students, that results in a bloated student-teacher ratio of 50 to 1. Fifty to one.
This ratio would be considered much too high for a public school in general; however, for an alternative school in particular in which the focus is on small class sizes and additional interaction time for each individual student, this ratio is obtusely top heavy.
See page 207 for more information.
Idaho's Promise 