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Teachers’ class-size task force urges lower K–5 thresholds, cites measurement dates and stipend policy
Summary
The Class Size Advisory Task Force (DCTA) presented its findings and recommendations to the DeKalb CUSD 428 Board: maintain middle-school thresholds, reduce elementary thresholds to 25 next year, continue stipends for over-threshold classes (now $300), and note that measurement occurs Oct. 1 and March 1.
The DeKalb Community Unit School District 428 Class Size Advisory Task Force, represented by Dina Sweet (eighth-grade language arts teacher at Clinton Rosette and co-president of the DeKalb Council of Teachers of America), presented its end-of-year report to the Board and urged continued action to reduce elementary class sizes.
Sweet said the task force, formed in 2019 and renegotiated in 2023 under the district’s MOU with DCTA, awards one-time stipends to teachers whose core-class rosters exceed contract thresholds. The stipend was increased from $250 to $300 in the 2023 agreement. Sweet said measurement dates for stipend eligibility are Oct. 1 and March 1 and…
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