As engineering students finish up their first round of midterm exams, the flaws of their introductory lecture classes are becoming painfully evident.

Five days after the New York City Department of Education was legally required to submit class-size statistics, parents, teachers, and educational advocates are still waiting for the data.

Public school classrooms citywide are exceeding United Federation of Teachers class-size limits, states a report from the New York City Independent Budget Office released at the end of September.
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