Class Size

Abstract

The issue of class size is a focus of recent policy initiatives. At the national level, President Clinton's State of the Union Address and the propsed FY '99 budget both call for reduced class size in America's public schools. In his 1998 State of the State address Governor Carper also proposed a reduction in class size in the core academic areas - capping class size at 22 students in elementary and 28 at the middle and high school levels.