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 ...

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 ...

Includes updates and/or revisions. After dropping for decades, average class sizes in American schools may be growing again as schools cope with budget shortfalls. Although some educators see the ...

The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our newsletters to have stories delivered to your inbox. Consider becoming a member to support our nonprofit journalism. A 2018 review of ...

Pete Grebner remembers what it was like to juggle a Como High School classroom with too many students, conducting chemistry lessons during which half the room did lab work while the other half read ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...