Pressure mounts on Mayor Adams to comply with NYC class size limits

Hundreds of New York City schools have enough space to shrink classes to comply with state law — provided that Mayor Eric Adams hires several thousand new instructors, the city teachers union said on Tuesday. A new analysis from the United Federation of Teachers found that 856 high-poverty schools have the capacity to lower class size by hiring 3,000 teachers, at a cost of $180 million. “These schools have the room,” UFT President Michael Mulgrew said on the steps of the city's education department's headquarters on Tuesday. “We don’t need...