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 – updated Jan. 2025 We have drafted the following resolution for CECs, Community Boards and other groups 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 […]
October 17, 2024 See our letter to Commissioner Rosa here and below, that provides yet more evidence that DOE has no actual plan to lower class size as the state law requires. It points out how the number of students in overcrowded schools has only increased since the class size law was passed, and how […]
Sept. 25, 2024 1.Big news – Chancellor Banks is resigning as of Dec. 31, 2024, to be replaced by Melissa Aviles-Ramos, current Deputy Chancellor for Family Engagement. This follows the announced resignations of other top officials, including the Police Commissioner and Commissioner of Health, in the last twelve days. The whirlwind of scandals and investigations […]
Sept. 17, 2024 1.Last week, the organization I co-chair, Parent Coalition for Student Privacy sent a letter to the Mayor, the Chancellor and Health Commissioner expressing our concerns about the city’s contract with and promotion of Teenspace, an online mental health service which collects highly sensitive data from students. According to its privacy policy, the […]
Please join us on Wed. June 18 when we will honor 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. Wine and food will be served!
Sign up here for our Annual Parent Action Conference on June 7th 2025, with keynote speaker Jamaal Bowman!
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.
