Please give to Class Size Matters on #GivingTuesday.

Please consider donating to Class Size Matters on #GivingTuesday. 

We are continuing to push for smaller classes and less overcrowding in our public schools. NYC added nearly a billion dollars to the capital plan last spring to build more schools, in part because of our advocacy.  Yet the plan is still underfunded, the process of school siting still broken, and more than 300,000 NYC students this fall are still crammed into classes of 30 or more.

Statewide, we have still working to protect student privacy and this fall, convinced the NY State Education Department to withdraw their risky plan to place children’s personal student data into the state archives – potentially forever. With the help of our coalition partners in NY State Allies for Public Education, we also managed to persuade NYSED to finally appoint a Chief Privacy Officer after years of delay.

In October, the NY Appellate Court unanimously ruled in our lawsuit that the NYC Department of Education must open School Leadership Team meetings to the public – in part because these teams of parents and staff have an important role to play in school governance.

Please help us continue our work for parent empowerment, student privacy, and the opportunity to learn in small classes. All students deserve the benefit of a teacher’s full attention rather than be assigned to rote lessons delivered via screens and data-mining software.

At the national level, given the policy predilections of a Trump administration and just-named Secretary of Education Betsy Devos, we will have to fight harder than ever to protect our public schools from the scourge of privateers and profiteers who want to make a buck.

Please support our work by clicking here, or sending a check to the address below. Your donation is fully tax-deductible.

Thanks so much,

Leonie Haimson
Executive Director
Class Size Matters
124 Waverly Pl.
New York, NY 10011
212-529-3539