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 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 […]
Feb. 26, 2026 A new Coalition has formed calling for an AI Moratorium in NYC Schools. The Coalition includes a growing number of organizations including AQE, Class Size Matters, Climate Families NYC, DSA Tech Action, MORE-UFT, NYC Kids PAC, the Parent Coalition for Student Privacy, Parents for AI Caution in Educational Spaces, and Racially Just […]
Feb. 26, 2026 1. A quick note, alerting you to the fact that this Tuesday, Feb 10. there will be rare hearings of the NYC Council Education Committee on Mayoral Control. The hearings will start at 10 AM at 250 Broadway 8th floor, Hearing Room 2. Likely the DOE will testify first and […]
Jan. 28, 2026 As I mentioned in my prior message, the entire suite of Kiddom digital products at a cost of $1.5 million was put back on the contract agenda for tomorrow’s PEP meeting, on Wed. January 28. The proposed contract document not only asks for the PEP to approve the entire suite of Kiddom […]
January 22, 2026 The Brookings Institution released a new report, saying the risks of using AI in schools to student learning, privacy, safety, and social and emotional development currently outweigh the benefits. Check out the one-page summary, the full report here, or this NPE piece. I am interviewing the main author of this report, Rebecca […]
For Immediate Release: March 2, 2026 More information: Leonie Haimson, leonie@classsizematters.org; 917-435-9329 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 […]
Below is a draft resolution calling for a moratorium on the use of AI in NYC public schools until rigorous guidelines can be enacted to prevent harm to students and the environment. Please reach out to your CEC, Community Board or other organization to consider passing this resolution or a similar one. We also have […]
February 10, 2026 Below is the written City Council testimony for the Feb. 10 hearing on Mayoral control. More observations and testimonies for the hearing are posted on the NYC Parents blog here. Feb. 12 Update: Just two days after the hearing, my list of major scandals and corruption under Mayoral control listed in […]
This reso as an editable word doc is here. Draft resolution calling for a moratorium on use of AI in NYC public schools until rigorous guidelines can be enacted to prevent harm to students Whereas, 33 states and Puerto Rico as well as many large districts have released official guidance or guardrails on the use […]
Sign the petition asking for a moratorium on the use of AI until rigorous safeguards are established to protect student privacy, learning and the environment.
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