BUFFALO — Ideal class size has been on legislators’ minds as they recalibrate school funding in the state, and educators say that there is a balance between classes that are too small and those that ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Responding to concerns from families and staff about high class sizes at Milwaukee Public Schools, driving some teachers to leave the district, the Journal Sentinel sought to find out where class ...

A third-grade classroom at Liberty Elementary School in Clovis Unified. (Bee file photo) In the fall of 2024, more than half of the K-3 classrooms at Liberty Elementary had 26 or more students. Mark ...