ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. (WOFL, FOX 35) – On the agenda at the Orange County school board meeting today will be strategies to meet the new class size amendment such as dual enrollment, virtual classrooms and even seven period days.

As you may remember smaller class sizes was voted in– in 2002 and this year is the deadline to meet the guideline, but some school districts are fighting back.

What are the new rules of the class size amendment?

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In a virtual classroom, class sizes don’t matter.

Eau Gallie High is taking advantage of that by offering a unique pilot program this fall. It will offer one core class — a foreign language class — through Florida Virtual School.

That means the 35 students sitting in Eau Gallie’s computer lab practicing their language skills will technically be enrolled at the virtual school so Eau Gallie won’t have to comply with class size rules for that period. If they did, the school would have to limit the class to 25 students.

Eau Gallie will just assign the students to the class as they do with any other class.

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