Clovis Unified reshapes class sizes to avoid losing out on millions in state cash

Clovis Unified School District is acting quickly to preserve millions in state funding by recalibrating its classroom size ratio for its youngest grade levels.

The district could have an annual $12.6 million state grant pulled because its early grades have class sizes limited to 27 students, rather than the state-mandated size of 24.

Driving the news: California enacted the K-3 Grade Span Adjustment grant in 2013 requiring school districts to maintain an average class size of no more than 24 students in Kindergarten through third grade classes. • Districts can collectively bargain alternative class sizes to still receive the funding, but CUSD does not have a teachers union. • CUSD had come to an agreement with the now-defunct Faculty Senate in the past in order to qualify for the fun