Dec. 22, 2025 The DOE is rapidly expanding the use of AI in our schools, despite the glaring lack of guidelines or guardrails, and despite the growing evidence that AI use may undermine student privacy, cognitive skills, critical thinking, creativity and the health of the local and global environment. I was quoted in this Chalkbeat […]
Dec. 17, 2025 This is a last minute email to let you know that DOE has removed the AI products from tonight’s PEP agenda, because they were told they would not be approved! A big thank you to those of you who sent emails in opposition. And for those who were planning to attend to […]
Dec. 16, 2025 1. Today the IBO released a report with their estimate of the costs of staffing to comply with the class size law; check out our response on how compliance could be achieved more thoroughly, equitably, efficiently and affordably than DOE currently plans to do. More on this soon. 2. […]
Check out the presentation here and below that we recently provided to the Education Committee of the NYC Bar Association about the weaknesses in DOE’s treatment of student privacy and AI. If you’d like a similar briefing for your CEC or other organization, please let us know by emailing info@studentprivacymatters.org “
Comments on the IBO report on costs of compliance For immediate release: December 16, 2025 For more information: Leonie Haimson, leonie@classsizematters.org; 917-435-9329 The IBO’s latest report includes cost estimates for staffing to meet the class size caps in the law, based upon figures two years old. However, the report also points out that accounting for […]
Dec. 9, 2025 The forum on Saturday explaining the serious risks of AI use in schools was standing room only, and there were many others attending via Zoom as far as away as Idaho. Thanks for those of you who came! The video will be posted soon, but meanwhile, here are three important steps you […]
December 12, 2025 A couple of quick requests: Please call Gov. Hochul’s office ASAP, especially if you haven’t already, to urge her to sign S7599C, the Loading Act, without weakening its provisions. She is in negotiations right now about what changes she would like to the bill. Recently, she forced significant changes before […]
December 1, 2025 Reminder: Wed. Dec. 3 is the deadline for NYC schools to fill out the survey/application for class size funding for next year. If you haven’t heard from your principal or your School Leadership Team about their plans, you should ask them ASAP. Principals are supposed to confirm that their SLTs have been […]
A pdf version of this memo is also posted here. December 1, 2025 On November 13, 2025, three prominent advocacy groups, Ed Trust- New York, Educators for Excellence, and Robin Hood, each funded by Wall Street and wealthy foundations aligned with the corporate reform agenda, held a press conference, urging New York City to halt […]
Prentation at our spring 2025 Parent Action Conference “
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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We honored Dr. Betty Rosa, former Bronx principal, District Superintendent, Board of Regents member and now NY State Education Commissioner for courageously standing up against the Trump administration on the importance of preserving Diversity, Equity and Inclusion programs in our public schools. 
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, Daniel Alicea and Kaliris Salas Ramirez interview guests and discuss issues affecting public schools in NYC, the state level and nationally. You can stream or subscribe to the podcast here at Simplecast; or at iTunes, Spotify or Google.
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.
