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Class size reduction motivates striking teachers, but is it worth the high cost?

By Kyle Stokes
Published January 16, 2019 02:22 PM
Michelle Levin, a teacher at Daniel Webster Middle School in west Los Angeles, says she teaches 33 students per class — which is low for L.A. Unified School District standards. On the first day of the teachers' strike, Levin walked the picket line outside the school where she teaches holding her "picket umbrella" in addition to her traditional picket sign.
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Michelle Levin, a teacher at Daniel Webster Middle School in west Los Angeles, says she teaches 33 students per class — which is low for L.A. Unified School District standards. On the first day of the teachers' strike, Levin walked the picket line outside the school where she teaches holding her "picket umbrella" in addition to her traditional picket sign.

Los Angeles teachers union members have made a class-size reduction central to their demands during their strike against the L.A. Unified School District.

The demand is hugely popular with the rank and file. But researchers say measuring the benefits of class-size reduction can get complicated.

Read this story on LAist.com.

Kyle Stokes
Kyle Stokes reported on the public education system for this newsroom for seven years. He left in January 2023 to cover city politics for the nonprofit newsroom MinnPost in his home state of Minnesota.
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