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LAS VEGAS (AP) — Classrooms in the Clark County School District will be more crowded next year as the district works to cut millions of dollars from its budget.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal reports (http://bit.ly/1SEOsuj ) that the Clark County School Board on Wednesday approved a $2.2 billion budget for the next academic year that includes larger class sizes. The budget is $13.9 million less than this year's plan.
The current student-to-teacher ratio is 32-to-1 in fourth and fifth grades, 34.5-to-1 in middle school and 34-to-1 in high school. During the 2016-17 school year those ratios will increase by one in grades four and five at underperforming elementary schools, by one in all grades at other elementary schools; and by 1.5 at middle and high schools.
District officials attribute the budget cuts to unexpectedly low enrollment growth and low property tax collections.
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