Mayor Zohran Mamdani wants to make classes smaller across the largest U.S. school system. Like other parts of his agenda, it’s a costly task. By Troy Closson Chris Phillips’s son was struggling to ...

It’s welcome relief that the state Legislature has delayed for two years the onset of its unnecessary and unreasonable (and pricey) class size mandate on New York City. The next step is to scrap it ...

The Portland Association of Teachers has removed class size caps — one of the most expensive, publicly popular and politically contentious elements of their asks — from their most recent bargaining ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

New York City’s top education officials seem to be reneging on a promise to keep certain class sizes this school year below thresholds set by the state, according to a revised draft plan quietly ...

Ionia — Across Michigan, teacher union contracts signed by school leaders identify ideal class sizes to promote learning within elementary schools, but often provide paths to easily exceed the caps ...

Formulating school and childcare centre reopening plans in North America this fall has been a daunting task, as both the pandemic and our scientific knowledge of COVID-19 continue to unfold quickly.