Comments on the Unacceptable Classroom Conditions at the Receivership Schools, Including Flushing and Grover Cleveland HS
Tonight, Class Size Matters will be speaking at the Flushing HS receivership hearings, and tomorrow morning at the Grover Cleveland HS hearings. It is a travesty that 66% of the struggling schools on the State receivership list and 57% of the schools on the City’s renewal list continue to suffer from class sizes of 30 […]
Grover Cleveland Receivership Comments 2015
Our comments on the Grover Cleveland High School Receivership Proposal: September 25, 2015.
Comments on Flushing HS Receivership Proposal 2015
Our comments on Flushing HS Receivership Proposal: September 25, 2015
Other Resources
Other resources Colorado PARCC Governing MOU Colorado Pearson Contract PARCC Privacy & Security Policy Oregon SBAC MOU Oregon AIR Contract SBAC Privacy & Security Policy Guidance for Schools Issued on How to Keep Parents Better Informed on the Data They Collect on Students US Department of Education, July 2014 Data and the Cloud: A Legal and Policy Guide […]
Update on the Mayor’s Plans for Our Schools & Please Take Our Survey Now!
September 17, 2015 Dear Friend, Yesterday, the Mayor gave a well-publicized speech about his plans to move our schools forward. With great fanfare, he announced he would improve our schools by adding 2nd grade reading specialists, more Algebra, computer coding and AP classes, as well as “single shepherds” for middle and high school students in two districts (D7 […]
Michael P. Thomas V. DOE, 2014
Petition Documents of Michael P. Thomas to the DOE for preventing him from attending a SLT meeting and violating the Open Meetings Law. May 17, 2014: Notice of Petition May 19, 2014: Memo of Law in support of Petition August 26, 2014: Verified Reply
Please Take and Share Our Five Minute Class Size Survey
Please Take and share our Class Size Survey below. You can also take it by clicking here. Loading…
Please Take Our Class Size Survey, Renewal/PROSE Schools, and Update on Student Privacy
September 15, 2015 Dear Friends, 1. Welcome to another school year. I hope you and your family had a good summer! Please take a moment to fill out this quick survey of your child’s class size this year; if you’re a teacher, please let us know your class sizes as well. It will help us immensely […]
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Talk out of School: WBAI Sunday at 7 PM EST or as a podcast
Talk out of School radio show and podcast airs Sunday night at 7 PM on WBAI 99.5 FM or online at www.wbai.org when Leonie Haimson and Daniel Alicea interview guests and discuss issues affecting public schools in NYC, the state level and nationally. You can stream or subscribe to the podcast here; or at iTunes, Spotify or Google.
Skinny award dinner honoring Rep. Jamaal Bowman!
We held our annual Skinny award dinner Wed. June 28, 2023, honoring Rep. Jamaal Bowman, former Bronx principal and now a progressive trailblazer who is fighting in Congress to protect and improve our public schools. More photos on Facebook .
