Please help us continue our work in 2024!

December 20, 2023

In June 2022,  NYC students, parents, and teachers had a great victory with the passage of a new state law that would require class sizes be lowered in our  public schools, starting this fall.  In 2023, we at Class Size Matters worked to try to ensure that the law will be followed by DOE, by publicizing how class sizes had instead increased this year, protested the ongoing cuts to school budgets and the capital plan, reached out to the State Education Department to urge them to demand a real class size plan from DOE, and contributed to the Class Size Working Group report,  with actionable and equitable proposals about how classes could be and should be reduced.

Yet we have much more work to do to see that the Mayor and the Chancellor follow through, despite their resistance to complying with the law.  We will use whatever strategies are available, whether they be organizing, advocacy, or legal action. But we cannot do this without your help.

Please make a tax-deductible donation to our work by clicking here, or by sending a check to the address below.  No other group is as focused on making sure that the learning environment is enhanced by providing children with the smaller classes that they need and deserve, and that would so fundamentally transform their learning environment.

2.  Another important issue remains to be resolved by June: whether mayoral control will be renewed, ended, or significantly changed.  Two state hearings have already occurred, at which the vast majority of speakers called out the deep flaws in the system.  Three more hearings will be held next month.  Make your voices heard!  I have provided a short reading list on Mayoral control, with links to some of our writings and others, showing how twenty years of one-man rule has not worked for NYC students.

Please contribute to Class Size Matters today!

Happy holidays, Leonie