Benching & Virtual Pooling @ schools.

Across the city, principals are facing budgets that are 5 percent slimmer, a steep cut for a school system where coffers swelled until the current economic downturn. As a result, principals, who now wield extraordinary authority over budgets, are learning to say “No,” and hoping the changes they make will not result in academic ruin.


With cash in short supply but loud mandates from above to keep test scores high, principals say they are confronting some of their most challenging decisions, like small class sizes or tutors in English and math? After-school remediation or extra lunchroom monitors? Chess club or drumming class?
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This NY Times article on the decrease in outlay of schools brings out a very vivid picture of being able to accept the realities and change to adapt to the changing environment with innovative solutions. May be this scenario of ensuring that funding is restricted/curtailed for performing Government schools can be adopted here too.  But, again maybe.
Similarly, i feel that the Private Sector which is into the Schooling sector be allowed to raise the financial requirements for admission and tuition for students to ensure that they can afford a better teacher to student ratio, instead of cramming classroom.