Formulating an education production function and using estimates of student and class discipline levels, this paper seeks to identify the relations between discipline, class size, teaching quality and ...

New York City Schools Chancellor David Banks claimed Tuesday that parents don’t care if classrooms are overcrowded, as he argued against a billion-dollar-plus state mandate to reduce their size. Banks ...

The controversial state law requiring New York City public schools to reduce class sizes across the board could become more problematic and reduce “equity” for the neediest students amid budget cuts ...

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 ...

It’s welcome relief that the state Legislature has delayed for two years the onset of its unnecessary and unreasonable (and pricey) class size mandate on New York City. The next step is to scrap it ...

A last-ditch effort to push Mayor Adams and his administration to slow the implementation of new class size caps before Zohran Mamdani takes office has failed. Over the recent objections of a ...

The Mamdani administration plans to spend more than $1 billion to hire new teachers and construct new space at school buildings to comply with New York’s new class size law, even as overall enrollment ...