March 30, 2003
P.S. 20 profile, NYTimes

I missed this story about P.S. 20 in the Lower East Side, an educational success story, due to its principal, Dr. G, and a little luck.

"But of all the tricks he's learned, by far the most important is reducing class size. "The first line of defense," he preaches. "My philosophy is you can't have a good education with 30 to 35 per classroom." It is no coincidence, he says, that P.S. 20's test scores have gone up since 1999, the first year of a state program that provided $140 million to reduce classroom size in elementary grades across the state."

Little-Known Jewel of Lower East Side

Posted by Dave at March 30, 2003 01:27 PM