Our letter with Ed Law Center, urging Commissioner to require NYC comply with class size law
December 18, 2024 A press release about our letter is posted here. The letter is posted here and below. “
Class Size Matters & Education Law Center urge State Commissioner to require NYC to comply with the state’s class size law
For immediate release: December 23, 2024 Contact: Leonie Haimson: 917-435-9329; [email protected] Wendy Lecker: (203) 536-7567, [email protected] On December 18, Class Size Matters and the Education Law Center sent a letter to Commissioner Betty Rosa, pointing out the failures of the NYC Department of Education (DOE) to comply with the class size law. The two organizations […]
No apparent relationship between class size funding allocated to schools and classes added to lower class size
December 12, 2024 The class size law requires that the DOE must provide in its annual Implementation Report “a detailed description of how contract for excellence funds contributed to achieving class size reduction in each school that received such funding including specific information on the number of classes in each school that existed prior to […]
Presentation to CPAC: Problems with DOE’s failure to plan for class size reduction
Dec. 12, 2024 Today, we provided a briefing to the Chancellors Parent Advisory Council on the serious problems with the DOE’s implementation of class size reduction, as required by the class size law. Their most glaring failing is the fact that there has been no move to provide space for overcrowded or overenrolled schools. In […]
Privacy briefing, update on Teenspace, and more evidence of DOE’s failure to plan for smaller classes
Oct. 17, 2024 Save the date! A week from now, Wed. October 23, at 7 PM we will be holding a webinar on the threat to student privacy from breaches and the DOE practice of sharing student data with ed tech companies, social media, charter schools, and other unscrupulous third parties. All this is likely […]
Urgent: send a letter to DOE today to oppose regulations that would profoundly weaken NYC student privacy!
Oct. 21, 2024 Please send a letter today to the Chancellor, the DOE Chief Privacy officer and the members of the Panel for Educational Policy, in opposition to proposed revisions to Chancellor’s regulation A-820 pertaining to student privacy. If adopted, these proposals would allow the DOE to share student names, email addresses, phone numbers, home […]
Last chance to sign up for our special privacy briefing tonight!
Oct. 23, 2024 Just a quick note to let you know that it’s not too late to sign up for our special student privacy briefing tonight at 7 PM EST, co-sponsored with AQE, to hear how you can help better protect your child’s personal data and their safety from predatory advertising, breach, and abuse. Just […]
Vote on privacy regs delayed! and why the failure of District Planning to plan for smaller classes matters
Oct. 29, 2024 1. Good news! Because of the concerns we expressed in the letter sent last week to DOE, pointing out the many serious flaws in their proposed revisions to Chancellor’s regulation A-820 on student privacy, and the more than 3,000 emails sent by many of you, the DOE has agreed to put off […]
Privacy regs still risk children’s safety, and yet another lousy class size proposal from DOE
Nov. 7, 2024 Last Tuesday the DOE released Chancellors regulations pertaining to student privacy, now to be voted on Nov. 20, in a third round of revisions that did little to allay our concerns. The proposed regulations would still allow a breathtakingly extensive and essentially unlimited amount of sensitive student personal data to be shared […]
New class size data & proposal for next year, and our reso urging DOE to do better
Nov. 20, 2024 On Oct. 31, DOE released their proposal for the third year phase-in of class size reduction. Principals in consultation with their School Leadership Teams can apply for additional funds to lower class size; with a deadline of Dec. 20, one month from today. The process is completely voluntary, with no total amount […]
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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 .
