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 ...
Schools Chancellor Kamar Samuels just told the ugly truth about two sacred cows of the local education establishment — the ...
Samuels spent Monday in the hot seat at the City Council’s education oversight panel, defending the Department of Education’s ...
In The Class Size Debate (Economic Policy Institute, 2002, Lawrence Mishel and Richard Rothstein, eds.), he points out the issue is not that class-size reduction is never effective. “Surely class-size ...
Howard County Public School System Superintendent Michael Martirano has recommended that the school board adopt a fiscal 2024 budget balancing scenario today that would cut 101.1 full-time equivalent ...
Chancellor David Banks has appointed a 48-member Class Size Working Group to come up with recommendations by October on how the DOE should carry out the law. The Washington Post via Getty Images The ...
A union-friendly education law is saddling the Big Apple with billions in additional costs — but Mayor Zohran Mamdani won’t ask Albany to tweak the pricey edict. Hizzoner has been pushing a tax ...
New research casts doubt on the success of Florida’s class-size reduction program as voters weigh a November ballot initiative to roll back the mandate’s more stringent provisions. The study by ...
New York City is offering public schools extra funding if they develop individual class size reduction plans for next school year, as the city continues its work to lower class sizes in accordance ...
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 ...
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 ...