cutting class

Example Sentences

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Shifting school starts is so powerful that Teny Shapiro, an economics professor at Santa Clara University, has found beginning school an hour later is the functional equivalent of cutting class size by a third.

From Washington Post • Aug. 17, 2022

Schools are already spending big chunks of their approximately $190 billion in pandemic relief money on a range of strategies from after-school programs to cutting class size.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 29, 2021

This could create a staff shortage at precisely the time when districts are trying to lower the risk of spreading infection by cutting class size and staggering schedules to limit population density in school buildings.

From New York Times • Jun. 6, 2020

They were cutting class sizes, "fast track" punishment for young offenders, cutting NHS waiting lists, getting 250,000 under-25-year-olds "off benefit and into work" and "no rise in income tax rates".

From BBC • Apr. 30, 2017

We were lucky we were cutting class down by Propp’s pond.

From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez