Federal Study Will Put Price Tag on Class-Size Reduction

Montreal

A nationwide push to reduce class sizes in the primary grades to 18 students could cost up to $6 billion a year, a forthcoming federal study concludes.

The study, conducted for the government by the American Institutes of Research and the RAND Corp., is still being reviewed by the U.S. Department of Education. But the researchers who led the project released some of the findings here last week during the annual meeting of the...