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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 ...

Hundreds of Wake County elementary school students will likely finish the school year in larger classes than the state allows. Wake school leaders say 95 classes need a waiver from the state law that ...

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 ...

Students attend a Book of Mormon class in the Joseph Fielding Smith Building. Some students prefer larger classes because they don't have to comment each class period, while others see higher test ...

Editor's Note: A version of this story aired on KPCC. Listen to it here. Science teacher Michelle Levin has only 33 kids in each of her classes — which makes her fortunate. That’s not because a class ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — A working group tasked with gathering input and providing feedback to New York City to implement a new state class size law released its final report of recommendations on Monday ...

When teachers are overwhelmed, students feel it, too. Class size reduction is a worthwhile investment for Oklahoma.

As a strike looms, the Chicago Teachers Union held a press conference Wednesday afternoon to call attention to one of its biggest issues: a demand for lower class sizes. The press conference was held ...

The discussion about the importance of class size has been ongoing for decades. While some still argue that class size doesn’t make a noticeable difference in the quality of education, research has ...