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High schools and kindergartens are feeling a particular squeeze, as total New York City enrollment figures indicate an increase for the first time in a decade.

SAN BERNARDINO - Since the start of the fall semester at San Bernardino Valley College, Juan Rodriguez has tried to find a desk in overcrowded classrooms and spent many mornings searching for a parking space. 

The District's budget problems will force its public schools to trim as much as $40 million in spending by the end of October, prompting teacher layoffs and, in some cases, increasing class sizes

Nearly one in 10 schools report they will not be able to balance their books by the end of the year

Teachers are fighting for smaller class sizes, arguing that the district should spend some of the $21 million it has in reserve to alleviate overcrowding.

With school set to start in less than three weeks, the North Clackamas School District sent layoff notices to 60 teachers Friday after the union refused to accept a salary freeze.

, 49 students crammed into a Spanish class, and the last 10 who arrived had to sit on the floor.

Valley educators tend to agree: Class size matters, especially in kindergarten through third grade.

WASHINGTON — Like a seesaw on the school playground, falling state budgets are pushing class sizes higher.

On a recent morning at the year-round Central Elementary School, Michael Stanley passed out poetry journals to his kindergartners and started making the rounds to assist the young writers

June 6, 2009 - Scotland's teachers are to be balloted on whether to take industrial action over the issue of class sizes

School lunch prices will be going up and more children will be squeezed into classrooms as the San Diego school board on Tuesday agreed to tens of millions of dollars in cuts to a budget with a projected $106.7 million deficit.