{"id":27373,"date":"2015-11-20T10:02:03","date_gmt":"2015-11-20T15:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=27373"},"modified":"2015-11-20T10:02:03","modified_gmt":"2015-11-20T15:02:03","slug":"letter-solution-to-class-size-issues-in-ucf-redistrict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=27373","title":{"rendered":"Letter: Solution to class size issues in UCF? Redistrict"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><strong>To The Editor:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Letters1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1142565\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Letters1.jpg\" alt=\"Letters1\" \/><\/a>The Unionville Chadds Ford School District parents who have expressed\u00a0concern about overcrowded fifth grade classes at Hillendale Elementary School\u00a0have exposed a very small tip of a large iceberg. Three of the four elementary\u00a0schools in the district operate from of 95. 9 % to 105.3% of their design capacities.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Only Unionville Elementary School operates significantly below its design capacity\u00a0at 61.1 %. Redistricting should have been done years ago and now is imperative\u00a0before the start of the 2016-17 school year next fall. Proper redistricting should\u00a0allow all four elementary schools to operate around 87% of their design capacities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">I <\/span>am also deeply concerned about how the School Board plans to fund the\u00a0teachers&#8217; contract next year. <span class=\"s1\">I <\/span>hope and expect the Board to take actions so that the\u00a0taxpayers in the district will not bear this burden. The Board needs to find ways to\u00a0cut expenses and to increase non-tax income to support their budgets. There are\u00a0numerous options that have existed for years that can be taken. The taxpayers of the\u00a0UCFSD deserve a break for a change. The last year with no tax increase <span class=\"s1\">I <\/span>believe was\u00a0in 1998.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>Bruce Yelton,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>Pocopson<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To The Editor: The Unionville Chadds Ford School District parents who have expressed\u00a0concern about overcrowded fifth grade classes at Hillendale Elementary School\u00a0have exposed a very small tip of a large iceberg. Three of the four elementary\u00a0schools in the district operate from of 95. 9 % to 105.3% of their design capacities. &nbsp;&nbsp; Send article as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27372,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7643,1286],"class_list":["post-27373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-commentary","tag-class-size","tag-unionville-chadds-ford-school-district"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}