The House Education Committee (K-12) on Tuesday gave its blessing to a bill giving local school systems more flexibility in class sizes for grades kindergarten through third grade. The bill is an effort to give local school districts some wiggle room from a provision enacted in the state budget requiring smaller class sizes. Current law allocates one...
Lawmakers on Monday began returning to Raleigh ready to file more bills and begin to committee meetings. Rep. Harry Warren, R-Rowan, filed a bill aimed at making it easier for auto-insurance companies to develop and implement driver-incentive plans. If approved, House Bill 43 would give insurers the option of continuing to use the N.C. Rate...
Do small classes boost student performance? Many parents and teachers think so: polling generally reveals widespread support for class size reduction. Decreasing class size is also popular among legislators, prompting billions of dollars in expenditures to fund ever-shrinking classes in states from California to North Carolina.
Scholarly research documents that school choice has a greater impact on test scores than programs such as the ABCs, class-size reduction, or Smart Start. So why isn't this big news?
