Constitution Says All Florida Classrooms Must Be Below 25 Students by 2008

The new law on class size is going to make things reallying interesting in the next 2 years.

The state Department of Education puts the total cost of implementing the amendment at $25 billion, of which the state has dedicated about $7 billion over the past four years.

By the fall of 2008, when Sansom takes over as House speaker, school districts will have to start calculating their class sizes on an actual classroom basis instead of a school-wide average. By fall 2010, no classroom can have more than 25 students, and prekindergarten through third grade will be capped at 18 students.

"There is not a school district in Florida that's even close to that," Sansom says. "This is going to dominate my two years."