How is it that while city public school enrollment has fallen from more than a million just a few years ago to fewer than 900,000 today, complying with the state’s ...

Both Mayor Bloomberg and the City Council speaker, Gifford Miller, apparently having done the electoral arithmetic and concluded that the best interest of teachers unions and the false hopes of ...

One of his campaign’s television ads informs New Yorkers that reducing class sizes has been one of the highlights of Mayor Bloomberg’s record on education. Flashing the words “Reduce Class Size” on ...

An eight-year, $139 million investment in class-size reduction in Montgomery County schools has not yielded substantially smaller classes across the board, according to a new report from a county ...

Local lawmakers are demanding a progress report from the city’s public schools on their efforts to reduce class sizes. Top education officials, absent Schools Chancellor David Banks, responded ...

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 ...

A measure to reduce class sizes was trailing slightly in the early returns Tuesday night. With 1,195,480 votes tallied, Initiative 1351 was behind 51-49 percent. Initiative 1351 would set lower class ...

Class size has been an enduring concern of parents and teachers alike and a deep flaw of New York City schools for nearly a century. As far back as 1930, during the administration of Mayor Jimmy ...

Hail to the six parents on the city Department of Education’s class-size taskforce who dissented from the majority’s recommendations for implementing the pernicious state mandate — calling it out as ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Araceli Barroso works with students in a 5-year-old bilingual kindergarten class at Rogers Street Academy in Milwaukee on Thursday ...

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 ...