What should families look for when choosing a small school district for their children? A HelloNation article provides the ...

After years of saying New York City did not have the money to meet the mandates of a state law lowering class sizes, Mayor Eric Adams changed his tune Wednesday, announcing his administration will ...

Entering a third-grade classroom in a high-poverty school, I saw lots of children for early elementary. “How many children do you have?” I asked the teacher. “Today I have 27,” she said. “But I have ...

Recently I read an article about the failure of New York City schools to prepare students to read. The article highlighted some really dire statistics. As a teacher and union advocate, I cannot say ...

Kindergarten is a child's first step into formal education — a pivotal moment that shapes their entire academic journey. Yet despite its critical importance, Nevada has only recently capped ...

Sign up for Chalkbeat New York’s free daily newsletter to get essential news about NYC’s public schools delivered to your inbox. Federico Zegarra, a special ...

There are few factors that can be concretely linked, with evidence, to better educational outcomes in primary and secondary students. Of those, the one we are most confident about is small class sizes ...

Lansing — Michigan's State Board of Education approved a resolution Tuesday calling for limits on class sizes to be put in place by the 2030-31 school year, including a cap of 20 students per class ...

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 ...

Changing open enrollment policies, adding three elementary class size reduction teachers, adding four more elementary school teachers and increasing staff salaries to the rate of inflation. Those are ...