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 ...

When, in 2018, I moved from Louisiana and started teaching in New York City, my average class size dropped by five students. A world of possibilities opened. Suddenly, I could adjust seating ...

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 ...

As students go back to school this week, concerns are growing that a new law to limit class sizes in New York City public schools might undermine the quality of education in classrooms across the city ...

When is an independent-study class overcrowded? That’s the gist of an ongoing dispute in Selma, where the teachers association is accusing the school district of exceeding class-size maximums — up to ...