[Herodotus]

indeed...it's all about reducing class size...that is a SIGNIFICANT first step.

[GovernmentShrinker]

Actually it's not. The few studies which have bothered to separate class size from school size have found that small school size is much more important than small class size. Likewise, the Department of Education's own research has shown school shootings to be disproportionately frequent in schools with over 1000 students (which naturally doesn't stop them from funding the growing number of huge consolidated high schools). I really think the "smaller classes" rallying cry is just another scam from the teachers' unions, demanding more jobs for teachers. Like so many of their pet educational theories, research utterly fails to back it up.