How big should a CSR classroom be and what flexibility does the law allow in configuring classrooms under the CSR program?
Education Code Section 52123(f) requires that “…each class reduced pursuant to this chapter is housed in either a separate, self-contained classroom or that the space of each such class for each grade level at that school site provides a square footage per pupil in each class that is not less than the average square footage per pupil in each class that is not less than the average square footage per pupil enrolled in those grade levels at that school site in the 1995-96 school year.” A “self-contained” classroom is defined by the CDE as a single teaching station with an individual teacher. It is an educational area designed for the instruction of students. By design, it is spacious, functional, safe, well lighted, and shaped for efficient instruction and supervision. It must be versatile and adaptable to an adopted course of study. It is the intent of the CDE to not include the definition of a separate, “self-contained classroom” in either legislation or in regulation, and the above
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