{"id":135339,"date":"2020-09-15T10:16:48","date_gmt":"2020-09-15T01:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=135339&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2020-09-15T10:16:48","modified_gmt":"2020-09-15T01:16:48","slug":"fukuoka-city-to-reduce-number-of-students-per-class","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/fukuoka-city-to-reduce-number-of-students-per-class\/","title":{"rendered":"Fukuoka City to Reduce Number of Students Per Class"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fukuoka City announced a planned reduction of the number of students per class at municipal elementary and junior high schools to 35 or less during the school year of 2021. The city has appropriated a budget of \u00a5460 million to secure classrooms and teachers for the additional 308 classes. The program aims to improve school safety amidst the spread of the new coronavirus by avoiding congestion in classrooms. Also, the local educational committee intends to seek the central government&#8217;s support to allocate more teachers. <\/span><b>Source: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yomiuri.co.jp\/local\/fukuoka\/news\/20200911-OYTNT50073\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yomiuri<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-135340\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/hakata-elementary-school.jpg?resize=1400%2C1050&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1400\" height=\"1050\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/hakata-elementary-school.jpg?w=1400&amp;ssl=1 1400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/hakata-elementary-school.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/hakata-elementary-school.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/hakata-elementary-school.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/>Photograph provided by Fukuoka City.<\/p>\n<p><b><i>Disclaimer<\/i><\/b><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: Fukuoka Now posts summaries of Kyushu area news for those who cannot read Japanese. These are mostly summaries of publicly posted news from the Japanese media. Errors might occur during translation, those are ours. Images are sourced separately and are for illustrative purposes only. Use<\/span><\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/contact\/\"> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">this form<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to send feedback. Please share links to this page, it helps us.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">More Kyushu news on<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FukuokaNow\"> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Twitter<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/fukuokanews\/\"> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Instagram<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/fukuokanow\"> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Facebook<\/span><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fukuoka City announced a planned reduction of the number of students per class at municipal elementary and junior high schools to 35 or less during the school year of 2021. The city has appropriated a budget of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29305,"featured_media":135340,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-135339","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-fukuoka-city","news-category-society","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/135339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29305"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135339"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}