NYC Public School Parents: Grover Whitehurst's big pay day, testifying class size doesn't matter

NYC Public School Parents: Grover Whitehurst's big pay day, testifying class size doesn't matter:

Grover Whitehurst's big pay day, testifying class size doesn't matter

by Leonie Haimson

The State of Texas is being sued for inadequate school funding; with over $5 billion cut from school budgets last year alone, leading to unprecedented increases in class sizes. About two-thirds of the school districts in Texas— serving three-quarters of the state’s public school students — are plaintiffs.  What’s particularly tragic is that Texas was the first state in the country to systematically reduce in class size: in 1984,