10.63.107    CLASS SIZE

(1) There must be one appropriately licensed and endorsed teacher for ten students, with an early childhood paraprofessional for any additional students over ten, for up to no more than 18 total students in a classroom with two adults. The school district must assign qualified human resources that comply with all fingerprint and background check requirements when exceeding maximum class sizes at a rate of 1 1/2 hours per day, per student overload.  An overload of five students per classroom is considered excessive.

History: Mont. Const. Art. X, sec. 9, 20-2-114, 20-7-101, 20-7-1803, MCA; IMP, Mont. Const. Art. X, sec. 9, 20-7-101, 20-7-117, 20-7-1803, MCA; NEW, 2014 MAR p. 2943, Eff. 7/1/15; AMD, 2024 MAR p. 722, Eff. 4/13/24.