Smaller classes: the wrong investment for city schools
The New York City Department of Education recently agreed to reduce class sizes at 75 middle and high schools under the state's "contract for excellence." Now, advocates at the Campaign for Fiscal Equity are pushing the department to shrink classes even more at all grade levels.
It's time for advocates of student achievement to push back against the growing class size obsession.
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This article was originally published in New York Daily News.
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