Questions from City Council: class sizes again

Mayor Lukes: difference between student/teacher ratio and adult/child ratio?

Putting a tutor in the classroom (or an aide) cuts the adult ratio without lowering the teacher ratio (as an aide or tutor is not a teacher).

What about the adult/child ratio for those classrooms that will still be over?

First try is to split the class. (And that solves the student/teacher problem) If you can't do that, you get a tutor for part of the time, cutting the adult/child ratio. "It depends where the 16 (large classes) are." If there's classroom space, you can split a class; no classroom, no split.