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 ...

Responding to concerns from families and staff about high class sizes at Milwaukee Public Schools, driving some teachers to leave the district, the Journal Sentinel sought to find out where class ...

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 ...

Conversations about class size have swept across Oregon over the past few years, particularly for students in elementary grades. Teachers have largely driven discussions, advocating for smaller class ...

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 ...

A bill to make class sizes a mandatory topic of bargaining between Oregon school districts and their local teacher unions appears poised to clear a key hurdle in Salem this week. Should the concept ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — New York City is hiring thousands of teachers across the five boroughs to help reduce class sizes — and that includes more than 250 teachers in Staten Island public schools. As ...

BUFFALO — Ideal class size has been on legislators’ minds as they recalibrate school funding in the state, and educators say that there is a balance between classes that are too small and those that ...

Lansing — Misleading data posted on a state-run website and the apparent failure of some charter schools to comply with a transparency law hinder the ability of parents and policymakers to get an ...

Thousands of elementary school students in Michigan — some as young as 5 years old — are learning to read and count in classrooms filled with 30 or more children, according to a trove of records ...