Teaching and Learning Class Size Class sizes continue to grow in many Colorado school districts. We do not really know actual Colorado class sizes because the Colorado Department of Education does not maintain such research.
Conventional wisdom is that smaller class sizes are conducive to improved student learning.
The 1998 Legislature rejected two class size reduction bills, primarily because of the high cost of hiring enough teachers to significantly reduce class size. Congress recently passed legislation to partially fund the hiring of 100,000 classroom teachers using federal tax dollars. Colorado will be eligible for about 300 of these teachers, but school districts will have to pick up part of the first year and ongoing costs of employing such teachers.