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 ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — New York City has announced plans to reduce class sizes in public schools for the next academic year. New York City has been shrinking the size of classrooms in public schools ...

Bloated by class-size reduction edicts, Florida's teaching force grew by a larger percentage than any other state's between 2003 and 2009 -- even though student enrollment inched up just 1.2 percent ...

The powerful teachers’ union delivered a master class in wheeling and dealing — winning pay bumps of up to $9,500 as part of ...

Local public schools are being asked to come up with their own plans to help New York City meet new caps on class sizes in exchange for extra funding next school year, Chancellor Melissa Aviles-Ramos ...

Who’s taking who to school? A plan to give the Big Apple extra time to comply with a school class-size cap was supposed to save the city $500 million — but it wasn’t included in the state’s key ...

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The Mamdani administration plans to spend more than $1 billion to hire new teachers and construct new space at school buildings to comply with New York’s new class size law, even as overall enrollment ...

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 ...

Parents whose kids are in one of the city’s highest-performing but most overcrowded school districts are rebelling against a controversial state law requiring across-the-board reductions in class ...

The working group on class sizes for the New York City Department of Education unveiled its preliminary proposals for smaller class sizes at the Martin Luther King Jr. Educational Campus auditorium on ...