{"data":{"id":"us-nyc/n.y.c.-admin.-code-l.l.-2005-125","jurisdiction":"us-nyc","citation":"N.Y.C. Admin. Code § L.L. 2005/125","heading":"L.L. 2005/125","body":"Enactment date: 12/29/2005\n\nInt. No. 619-A\n\nBy Council Members Moskowitz, Baez, Brewer, Fidler, Foster, Gennaro, Gerson, James, Koppell, Liu, Martinez, Nelson, Palma, Sanders Jr., Sears, Vann, Weprin, deBlasio, Jackson and The Public Advocate (Ms. Gotbaum)\n\nA Local Law to amend the New York city charter, in relation to requiring the New York city department of education to report average class sizes in each school to the City Council.\n\nBe it enacted by the Council as follows:\n\nSection 1. Legislative findings. For decades, public schools in New York City have been overcrowded. Although class size varies from school to school, some elementary and middle schools have classes in excess of 30 students and some high schools have classes in excess of 35 students. Such class sizes are considered unreasonable by parents, students and educators.\n\nOver the past decades, a variety of means have been tried to reduce class sizes, including hiring additional teachers, building additional school buildings, staggering classes over a dozen or more periods during the school day, and placing class size limitations in the contract between the Department of Education and the United Federation of Teachers. Although some of these measures have been successful, they have not succeeded in reducing class size uniformly, citywide, to acceptable levels.\n\nThe Council finds that one reason the Department of Education has been unable to reduce class size to acceptable levels citywide is that the public and policymakers do not have access to accurate and timely class size information. The Council therefore finds that legislation requiring the Department to report such information is necessary to ameliorate this deficiency.\n\n* * *\n\n[Consolidated provisions are not included in this Appendix A]\n\n* * *\n\n§ 3. If any subsection, sentence, clause, phrase or other portion of this local law is, for any reason, declared unconstitutional or invalid, in whole or in part, by any court of competent jurisdiction, such portion shall be deemed severable and such unconstitutionality or invalidity shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of the local law that added this section, which remaining portions shall remain in full force and effect.\n\n§ 4. This local law shall take effect one hundred and eighty days after its enactment into law.","path":["New York City Administrative Code","2005"],"source_url":"https://files.amlegal.com/pdffiles/NewYorkCity/Admin/XML.zip","current_through":"Local Law 2026/135 (enacted August 31, 2026)","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-06T02:48:57Z","sha256":"fefe38da10f054bd0a8e27197d81a6c323298c1325cc51282b47068002cc64bd","source_id":"us-nyc","stale":false,"prev":"us-nyc/n.y.c.-admin.-code-l.l.-2005-123","next":"us-nyc/n.y.c.-admin.-code-l.l.-2005-126"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}