The controversial state law requiring New York City public schools to reduce class sizes across the board could become more problematic and reduce “equity” for the neediest students amid budget cuts ...

The city needs to become serious about reducing class size in its public schools, contends Assemblymember William Colton (D — Gravesend, Bensonhurst, Bath Beach and Dyker Heights), who is concerned ...

When the Milwaukee School Board approved a class size policy in 1995, it was with the intention to continue lowering class sizes in future years. Thirty years later, the school district is operating ...

Local public schools are being asked to come up with their own plans to help New York City meet new caps on class sizes in exchange for extra funding next school year, Chancellor Melissa Aviles-Ramos ...

Hundreds attended a rally on the Tweed Courthouse steps with City Council members, community organizations and advocates calling on the Mayor and City Council to budget funding for public schools.

An eight-year, $139 million investment in class-size reduction in Montgomery County schools has not yielded substantially smaller classes across the board, according to a new report from a county ...

Local lawmakers are demanding a progress report from the city’s public schools on their efforts to reduce class sizes. Top education officials, absent Schools Chancellor David Banks, responded ...

Gov. Hochul indicated Thursday she’s eyeing some changes to a bill capping class sizes in the city’s public schools before signing it into law in the coming days. The governor said she is “inclined to ...

This article was originally published in Chalkbeat. New York City is giving schools extra funding to hire 3,700 teachers and 100 assistant principals to comply with a major class size reduction ...

California has spent billions of dollars to reduce class sizes in elementary grades, but studies have yet to reveal evidence the effort is improving student achievement. Teachers and administrators in ...

Local schools don't want to lose federal grants that have allowed them to hire additional teachers to reduce class sizes. But if those class-size-reduction grants get grouped into a new bunch of ...

Both Mayor Bloomberg and the City Council speaker, Gifford Miller, apparently having done the electoral arithmetic and concluded that the best interest of teachers unions and the false hopes of ...