Cash-strapped school districts and states across the country are backing away from reductions in class size, a reform touted in recent years as a magic bullet for improving ailing public schools. In ...

Officials declared roughly 10,500 of the city’s more than 150,000 classes exempt. With those classrooms removed from the ...

In The Class Size Debate (Economic Policy Institute, 2002, Lawrence Mishel and Richard Rothstein, eds.), he points out the issue is not that class-size reduction is never effective. “Surely class-size ...

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James A. Fleming is superintendent of Capistrano Unified School District. In 1996, then-Gov. Pete Wilson proposed, and the Legislature approved, the Class Size Reduction Program, one of the most ...

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New research casts doubt on the success of Florida’s class-size reduction program as voters weigh a November ballot initiative to roll back the mandate’s more stringent provisions. The study by ...

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