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 ...

It’s welcome relief that the state Legislature has delayed for two years the onset of its unnecessary and unreasonable (and ...

The state passed legislation extending the timeline for full implementation of the class size law. The extension brings the compliance rate to 70% for 2026-27, 80% for 2027-28, 90% for 2028-29 and 100 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mayor Zohran Mamdani wants to make classes smaller across the largest U.S. school system. Like other parts of his agenda, it’s a costly task. By Troy Closson Chris Phillips’s son was struggling to ...

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 ...

A recently passed state law to shrink class sizes in New York City could cost at least $1.6 billion each year to employ an additional 17,700 teachers, according to an analysis by the Independent ...

Why is that pesky devil always mucking things up in the details? Why can’t we just close our eyes, wish for lower class size in our public schools and “poof,” it is so. The reality is that our ...