NYC needs 6,000 teachers and billions in funding to meet class size caps. Top education leaders warn that without more state aid, city schools will fall short of the mandate.

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 ...

As students go back to school this week, concerns are growing that a new law to limit class sizes in New York City public schools might undermine the quality of education in classrooms across the city ...

When, in 2018, I moved from Louisiana and started teaching in New York City, my average class size dropped by five students. A world of possibilities opened. Suddenly, I could adjust seating ...

State lawmakers have struck an agreement on bills that would extend mayoral control of the New York City school system for two years and mandate reductions in public school class size. State Sen. John ...

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 ...

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 ...

President Christopher Eisgruber's long-planned expansion of the student body will have a smaller effect on the Class of 2027 after enrollment numbers decreased by 8.93 percent from the Class of 2026.