Class Size

Florida's popular class-size amendment may be put on ice, thanks to a weakening economy and a statewide budget crisis.

Ministers have failed to cut class sizes despite spending billions of pounds on schools, a major international report has found

Exclusive: Primary pupils at schools in urban areas across Scotland are being taught with children of different ages as part of moves to meet government class size targets.

It could be termed the new West Lothian Question. A last-minute climbdown by the SNP-run West Lothian Council in a landmark placing request case has put the spotlight on the legal standing of attempts by all schools in Scotland to reduce class sizes.

A straight A-grade student who was told he couldn't become a doctor because of his spent criminal conviction has been offered an interview at a top medical school

Schools Chancellor Joel Klein revealed Thursday that he's exploring the idea of dividing large middle schools into small academies where kids can get more personal attention.

The Scottish Government's pledge to reduce class sizes came under fresh scrutiny yesterday after an SNP-led council said it would cost it an extra £7m to meet the commitment.

The Scottish Government's policy of cutting class sizes could cost hundreds of millions of pounds, it emerges. It said councils were currently working out how to achieve class sizes of 18 pupils in primaries one to three.

An eight-year, $139 million investment in class-size reduction in Montgomery County schools has not yielded substantially smaller classes across the board, according to a new report from a county oversight group. But the initiative has succeeded in providing the smallest classes to the youngest

Under heavy pressure to contain spending, some Washington area school systems are planning to increase class size in the coming year to save money on teachers.

Only an academic, safe in his book-lined office on La Trobe University's green campus, could argue that class sizes in schools should be enlarged almost 50 per cent and that teachers should confront 35 hormone-charged and often obstreperous teenagers for six or more hours every day.

Budget crunch expected to increase class sizes in primary grades 
Candace Glazer is a kindergarten teacher, but you also could say she's a conductor who leads 20 5-year-olds.

They defeated a resolution during the annual general meeting of the B.C. Confederation of Parent Advisory Councils that suggested the union could be a powerful ally in the push for better learning conditions for students.

By YOAV GONEN, Education Reporter
Nearly half the city middle and elementary schools that received state money earmarked for class-size reduction failed to shrink classes this academic year, according to a new report.

The National Union of Teachers is threatening to strike unless the Government introduces a legal maximum class size of 20. Meanwhile, schools minister Jim Knight was booed at another teaching union conference when he suggested that larger classes might sometimes be acceptable