The United Federation of Teachers is receiving blame for the under-enrollment crisis and resulting school-budget cuts. James Messerschmidt The so-called “class size” bill awaiting Gov. Kathy Hochul’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

Maybe your first grader came home excited to tell you about all twenty-seven of her new classmates and you freaked. Maybe you’re considering shelling out for that fancy Montessori school that promises ...

Correction: In a previous version of this article class size numbers for the four schools were mixed up. The phrase "common core" was used, however, the term should be just core. Also Kim Neal, ...

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 ...

Maria Flores remembers hearing the story about how her daughter wet her pants in kindergarten class. As she recalls it, her “very quiet” daughter raised her hand to use the restroom, but the teacher – ...

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 ...

The next mediation session is scheduled for Feb. 29. If negotiations reach the point of a strike, it likely wouldn’t happen until early April After 10 months of bargaining and an impasse declaration ...

First-year writing courses will expand to 17 students next fall, a stark increase from the 12-student cap Duke had in 2021.