A new law to reduce class size in New York City has large support among families, but early tensions could signal a turbulent political road ahead. By Troy Closson When lawmakers forced New York City ...

It doesn’t get much dumber than this: Though enrollment remains 100,000 below pre-pandemic levels in New York City’s largest-in-the-nation K-12 public school system, the Department of Education is ...

The United Federation of Teachers is receiving blame for the under-enrollment crisis and resulting school-budget cuts. James Messerschmidt The so-called “class size” bill awaiting Gov. Kathy Hochul’s ...

A bill to make class sizes a mandatory topic of bargaining between Oregon school districts and their local teacher unions appears poised to clear a key hurdle in Salem this week. Should the concept ...

Class sizes throughout Oregon are near their lowest point in years, thanks to a potent combination of declining enrollment in public schools and an infusion of federal pandemic recovery funds, new ...

Starting today, parents, school leaders and others can fill out a survey to express their interest in joining a working group where they’d have a front row seat to weigh in on a new state law that ...

Maryland teachers want to include class size in contract negotiations with local boards of education. But currently, that’s illegal in Maryland, and one state senator is working to change that. “I ...

Donna Bain Butler, an adjunct professor in world languages and literatures at Delaware State University, was surprised to learn this semester that she would be receiving a pay cut after the university ...

Of the many changes teachers and administrators have seen at Clark County School District schools this spring, the most dramatic is the sparse student populations that returned to campuses as they ...

Why is that pesky devil always mucking things up in the details? Why can’t we just close our eyes, wish for lower class size in our public schools and “poof,” it is so. The reality is that our ...

This article is part of the collection: What’s the Plan? How K-12 School Districts Are Preparing to Resume and Reopen. When leaders at Megan Claffey’s Colorado district decided to give parents a ...