The Huffington Post (9/27, Kuczynski-Brown) reports that United Federation of Teachers President Michael Mulgrew released a report Tuesday indicating that "nearly half of New York City's public schools have classrooms that are more crowded than the teachers' union contract allows," noting the he called this "a very disturbing trend." The Post adds, "Mulgrew, speaking outside of the New York City Museum School in Chelsea, blamed the city Department of Education and Mayor Michael Bloomberg's administration for failing to make lowering class sizes a priority, despite what he said was evidence that smaller classes aid students. A teachers' union survey found that a record 670 schools had what their labor contract calls oversize classes, up from 660 last year."
The New York Post (9/27, Gonen) reports that the UFT says that "students are getting impromptu lessons on how to feel like sardines this year - with more than 6,200 classes citywide packed beyond the brim. ... That's the number of classes containing more students than allowable under the United Federation of Teachers contract - although it's about 800 fewer overstuffed classrooms than at this time last year." The piece quotes Mulgrew saying, "The educational research is clearly and solidly behind this - when you have smaller classes, you allow a teacher to dedicate more time to every individual student. This is common sense."
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