Friday, September 5, 2025

Thousands of new NYC teachers set to begin amid class size hiring push


Thousands of new teachers filed into Brooklyn’s Barclays Center for orientation Tuesday as part of what New York City officials hope will be a historically large hiring class.

In a typical year, the nation’s largest school district faces the daunting challenge of hiring between 4,000 and 5,000 new educators to replace the ones who left. This year, officials aim to hire 3,700 on top of that to satisfy the state’s class size reduction law. Some 750 schools received additional money from the city for the coming year to hire extra teachers to bring more classes under the state caps, which range from 20 to 25 students depending on age...

https://www.chalkbeat.org/newyork/2025/08/26/nyc-teacher-hiring-spree-for-class-size-law/


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