However, in the areas where the shortage is greatest - inner cities - class-size reduction may actually help attract qualified teachers.

In our minds, class-size reduction is the absolute best way to insure kids learn what they need to learn to graduate and go on to higher standards.

Look at Clinton's and other people's class-size reduction scheme.

Problematic, because there is so little evidence that, apart from kindergarten and first grade, class-size reduction produces any better education.

Nonetheless, everyone is proposing class-size reduction.

After mandatory class-size reductions occurred, more classes needed to be made, so the school converted two bathrooms and the library into classrooms.

Many said the expanding testing budget would starve other state programs, including class-size reduction and teacher recruitment and training.

Besides, he said, the class-size reduction would cost about $8 billion over eight years, not the $27 billion that Mr. Bush estimated.

In America, children take a back seat as school administrations slog through the bureaucratic quicksand of teachers' unions, class-size reductions and site-based management.

There is no sign in his words or budget that he intends to proceed with class-size reduction as mandated by the state to begin in 1999.