April 16, 2026 Media Contacts: Liat@climatefamiliesnyc.org, 917-930-2788 Kelly Clancy, parentsforAIcaution@gmail.com, 512.589.6302 We gathered, spoke and delivered a petition to Mayor’s office, urging him to to lead and protect students New York, New York: Elected officials, advocates, parents, students, and educators rallied at City Hall for a moratorium on the use of generative AI in […]
April 16, 2026 in Press Releases, Uncategorized by leoniehaimson
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April 12, 2026 See our updated analysis of where our schools are now with class size compliance and what the DOE needs to do to provide smaller classes to all the NYC students who need them. If the pdf below doesn’t scroll it can also be accessed here.
April 12, 2026 in Presentations, Uncategorized, Updates by leoniehaimson
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April 2, 2026 It was recently announced that as part of a class action court settlement, the ed tech company PowerSchool and the Chicago Public Schools agreed to pay a total of $17.25 million to students whose privacy was violated by Naviance, a college advising company acquired by PowerSchool in 2021. In turn, PowerSchool was […]
April 3, 2026 in Recent Newsletters, Updates by leoniehaimson
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March 25, 2026 A lot has happened in the last two days. On Monday, education budget hearings were held at City Hall. It soon became apparent that nearly four years since the class size law was passed, the DOE still has no actual plan to comply. Chancellor Samuels admitted that it is unlikely that they […]
March 26, 2026 in Newsletters, Uncategorized, Updates by leoniehaimson
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March 24, 2026 Here’s our presentation on why there needs to be a moratorium on the use of AI, so that a rigorous guardrails can be established with parent and community input to prevent harm to students and the environment. Our coalition’s statement about DOE’s inadequate AI guidance is here. Articles in the Daily News […]
March 24, 2026 in Presentations, Updates by leoniehaimson
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My testimony showing how DOE has no actual plan to provide sufficient space for class size reduction.
March 23, 2026 in Testimonies & Comments, Updates by leoniehaimson
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On March 19, we held a presentation followed by a conversation with parents about class size, and what’s not happening in their schools but needs to be.
March 20, 2026 in Uncategorized by leoniehaimson
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March 16, 2026 We’re holding a class size briefing and conversation via Zoom this Thursday, March 19 at 6 PM for anyone who has questions about what the DOE is currently doing or not doing on class size, what they are proposing to do next year, and/or if you would like to share what’s happening […]
March 19, 2026 in Recent Newsletters, Updates by leoniehaimson
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March 10, 2026 Dear all: Parents, teachers and others should attend the Chancellor’s upcoming Listening Sessions to make your voice heard on the issues that concern you, whether this be the failure of the DOE to provide space for the hundreds of schools that do not have the room at their current enrollment to lower […]
March 13, 2026 in Newsletters, Updates by leoniehaimson
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March 2, 2026 1. On Friday, the NYC School Construction Authority released their February update to the five-year capital plan. It contains not a single penny of additional funding to relieve school overcrowding and continues to fund only 33,417 new school seats – though the SCA testified last year that at least 70,000 […]
March 3, 2026 in Uncategorized by leoniehaimson
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