Group will address Monticello class size problems

MONTICELLO – With first-grade classes fluctuating as much as 10 students – four classes at Lincoln Elementary averaging 23 students and two at White Heath averaging 13 – the Monticello school district is looking into ways to regulate class sizes.

Superintendent Vic Zimmerman is organizing a study group that will look into ways to fix this and other class size problems.

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