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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 proposal to require Oregon school districts to bargain over class sizes with their local teacher unions has resurfaced in the Legislature, just two years after a similar bill died due to equity ...

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 ...

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 ...