{"title":"Policy from the Hip: Class Size Reduction in California","authors":"P. Schrag","doi":"10.1353/PEP.2007.0009","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: In the spring of 1996, California Gov. Pete Wilson pushed a class size reduction plan through the state legislature to limit all classes in grades K-3 to 20 students in a state where many had 30 or more students. With one significant exception, there was little research to support such a sweeping plan, a point Wilson himself had made when he opposed CSR earlier in his administration. But Wilson, faced with a constitutional requirement to put a large part of the state’s new revenues into the schools, and wanting to keep the money off the union bargaining table, prevailed over the warnings of skeptics to go slow.","PeriodicalId":9272,"journal":{"name":"Brookings Papers on Education Policy","volume":"40 1","pages":"229 - 243"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2007-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"17","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Brookings Papers on Education Policy","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/PEP.2007.0009","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract: In the spring of 1996, California Gov. Pete Wilson pushed a class size reduction plan through the state legislature to limit all classes in grades K-3 to 20 students in a state where many had 30 or more students. With one significant exception, there was little research to support such a sweeping plan, a point Wilson himself had made when he opposed CSR earlier in his administration. But Wilson, faced with a constitutional requirement to put a large part of the state’s new revenues into the schools, and wanting to keep the money off the union bargaining table, prevailed over the warnings of skeptics to go slow.