New York City Schools Chancellor David Banks claimed Tuesday that parents don’t care if classrooms are overcrowded, as he argued against a billion-dollar-plus state mandate to reduce their size. Banks ...

A last-ditch effort to push Mayor Adams and his administration to slow the implementation of new class size caps before Zohran Mamdani takes office has failed. Over the recent objections of a ...

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 ...

When, in 2018, I moved from Louisiana and started teaching in New York City, my average class size dropped by five students. A world of possibilities opened. Suddenly, I could adjust seating ...

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 ...

President Christopher Eisgruber's long-planned expansion of the student body will have a smaller effect on the Class of 2027 after enrollment numbers decreased by 8.93 percent from the Class of 2026.

In a buzzing classroom at Rogers Street Academy this spring, 24 kindergartners were remarkably on task all at once. Teacher Araceli Barroso was focused on two of them. At a small table together, the ...

When is an independent-study class overcrowded? That’s the gist of an ongoing dispute in Selma, where the teachers association is accusing the school district of exceeding class-size maximums — up to ...

SOME SIGNIFICANT BUDGET CUTS HERE. YEAH. THAT’S RIGHT. SO SHE GAVE HER PRESENTATION EARLIER TONIGHT. AND THAT PROPOSED BUDGET INCLUDES SEVERAL COST SAVING MEASURES, WHICH COULD LEAD TO A SLIGHT ...