Special Board of Aldermen Public Hearing Page 38
Superintendent Brown
We do have overage language in a collective bargaining agreement. | don’t believe that has been
exercised for quite a while not since I’ve been here in the last 9 months. | can’t speak to when it was
used before. We are trying to keep our class sizes as Mr. Farrington said at reasonable levels and
we’re hoping to keep all of them below 25 to the extent that we can.
Paula Johnson
What do you define reasonable levels?
Superintendent Brown
| believe the State gives us guidelines for what they recommend for students in kindergarten, grades
1 to 3, 5 to 8, and then so on.
Paula Johnson
But we’re talking just elementary right now because these are elementary school teachers that we’re
taking 10 of them or 11.
Superintendent Brown
Right. We are going to redeploy 10 elementary teachers to even out some of the current class size
disparities and implement all-day kindergarten for all of the students in Nashua. We have planned for
800 incoming kindergarten students.
Paula Johnson
Okay so how many teachers are we going to need altogether for kindergarten is it 10?
Superintendent Brown
We're going to need altogether 42 kindergarten teachers.
Paula Johnson
But I’m saying new teachers.
Superintendent Brown
| believe the question you asked was how many kindergarten teachers are there are going to be 42.
Paula Johnson
Okay how many new kindergarten teachers do we need?
Superintendent Brown
We're going to go from 32 to 42.
