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Class Size Matters is a non-profit, non-partisan clearinghouse for information on class size and the proven benefits of smaller classes.
We also advocate for class size reduction in NYC, where our students continue to suffer from being crammed into the largest classes in the state and some of the largest in the nation.
NYC ballot proposition to reduce class size
NYC children vote Yes! for smaller classes on the steps of City hall.
New! Comments (in pdf) on the proposed closings of twenty schools.
Parents and concerned citizens picketed on the mayor's block on January 21 to protest the closing schools and charter school expansion. Click here for more info and a flyer.
New! On Jan. 5, 2010, Class Size Matters, the UFT, the NAACP, the Hispanic Federation, and parents from throughout the city filed suit against the NYC Department of Education on their failure to reduce class size, as mandated by state law.
New! Check out info on our Emergency parent conference on closing schools and charter school placements; Sat. Jan. 16, at School of the Future, 127 E. 22 St., 9:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Check out our testimony at the Council hearings on the city's failure to comply with the law Contracts for Excellence law, and our letter to the State Commissioner, signed by nearly 200 parent leaders, elected officials and the UFT president, urging him to withhold any more funds until the city proves that it is actually reducing class size.
Check out the report on the rising numbers of students discharged from NYC public schools over the last seven years, yet not counted as dropouts, here.
Leonie Haimson, Executive Director of
and sign up as a supporter!
Read our report, "A Better Capital Plan" on what the city must do to relieve school overcrowding and provide enough space for smaller classes and a well-rounded education.
Unfortunately, the proposed capital plan contains only about 35% of the necessary seats.
Read our letter to Obama, urging the president-elected to adopt common-sense education reforms that would make a difference in millions of kids lives; read the press coverage here.
Find our the results of our principal survey on overcrowding, safety and class size!
testing and Mayoral control.
Read our Daily News op-ed, showing how the school grading system is a fiasco!
Charter Schools and Class Size
What lessons should be learned about the small schools initiative, from a recent independent evaluation leaked to the NY Times?
Testimony before the NYC Council on the no-bid contracts granted by the Department of Education.
How smaller classes in grades K-3 have improved our schools, but how the city has failed to add the required number of classes.
Why experts agree that the Mayor's policy to retain 3rd, 5th and 7th graders on the basis of their test scores is doomed to fail and will cause our dropout rates to rise even higher.
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