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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
December 4, 2024 Please sign our petition now to the DOE Chancellor and UFT and CSA Presidents, urging them to develop and implement a real, multi-year plan so that all schools will be able to lower class size within the timeframe mandated by the law. Right now, DOE is proposing to exempt all overcrowded schools […]
Nov. 2024 We have drafted the following resolution for PTAs, SLTs or CECs to consider, urging the DOE to create and implement a actual multi-year class size plan, that would enable schools to cap enrollment at lower levels if that will be necessary for them to cap class sizes at the required levels, and for […]
Sign here to urge NYC to implement a real, multi-year strategy to lower class size, as the law intends, without exempting up to half or more of all students.
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.
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 .
