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How big are MPS class sizes? Here’s what we found in the first public analysis.

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 ...
The New York Times

A New Way to Shrink Class Sizes: Let Schools Take Charge

This year, schools were encouraged to come up with their own plans to lower their class sizes and apply to the Department of Education for funding. By Claire Fahy Two years ago, New York State ...

NYC asks principals to apply for next round of cash for smaller class sizes

The city’s public schools retained a former education official nicknamed the “shadow chancellor,” Dan Weisberg, as a consultant on the matter.
New York Post

State law lowering class sizes at public schools will cost NYC $2B a year: study

The new “unfunded” state-mandated smaller class size rule is projected to cost New York City nearly $2 billion annually once the change is fully implemented in five years. The city’s Independent ...
Oregonian

Class sizes in Oregon are at or near historic lows, but for how long?

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 ...
New York Post

NYC schools could use gyms, other spaces to comply with class-size mandate as critics blast ‘disaster in the making’

As many as 500 schools could choose to repurpose gyms and faculty lounges as classrooms as the city scrambles to meet the state’s class size mandates amid soaring enrollment. The option is one of 12 ...