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Tuesday, November 15, 2011

NYC Public School Parents: This year's class size data released today; unforgivable!

NYC Public School Parents: This year's class size data released today; unforgivable!:

This year's class size data released today; unforgivable!


The DOE released this year's class size data todayhere.
Class sizes increased citywide this year again for the 4th year in a row. In the early grades, the increase was sharper than in any year since records have been kept – at least since 1998.
This year, there were as many Kindergarten children in classes LARGER than 25 (the union contractual maximum) as were in classes of 20 or less –the goal that Bloomberg promised to achieve when he first ran