Elk Grove Unified School District trustees are scheduled to ratify an agreement Monday with the teachers union that would eliminate resource teachers in exchange for class-size reduction in grades four through six.

The meeting will begin at 8 p.m. in the district office, 9510 Elk Grove Florin Road.

Under the agreement with the Elk Grove Education Association, class sizes in fourth through sixth grade would be reduced from 34 to 26 students by the 2006-07 school year. Title 1 schools would continue to have 24 or fewer students in fourth through sixth grades.

In exchange, resource teachers who teach physical education, Spanish, science, art and music would be transferred into regular teaching jobs starting the next school year. Each school would keep a computer resource teacher.

The agreement also keeps kindergarten class sizes at 20 through 2005-06. Increasing kindergarten class sizes had been part of $10.9 million in cuts that trustees had approved in November to close a projected $18 million budget shortfall.