Updated Sept. 16, 2014 Several Community Education Councils have already passed this resolution, including CECs D2, D25, D26 and D28. Please consider this for your CEC, Community Board, PTA or other parent/community group. If you have already passed it, please send it to the Mayor at bdeblasio@cityhall.nyc.gov , the Chancellor at CGFarina@schools.nyc.gov, and your City […]
As the result of a lawsuit, DOE is holding borough hearings starting Tuesday this week on their useof $531 million in annual Contract for Excellence state funds. A flyer you can post in your school is here. Places and times are below. These funds were approved with the requirement that NYC submit a plan to […]
Today’s announcement that inBloom is closing its doors will hopefully make government officials, corporations and foundations more aware that parental concerns cannot be ignored, and that they must stop foisting their “solutions” on our schools and classrooms with no attention given to the legitimate concerns of parents and their right to protect their children from […]
Class Size Matters has led the fight for student data privacy in NY State. We are encouraged that the Governor and Legislature appear to be discussing the possibility of severing the state’s relationship with inBloom as part of the budget negotiations. As New York is now the only state still participating in this egregious project, […]
Please sign our petition, asking the Chancellor Fariña and the Panel for Educational Policy to reverse the damaging school co-locations voted on during the last few months of the Bloomberg administration. Be read the petition and be sure to add your comments at the top concerning any specific co-locations proposed for your school or community, as […]
For immediate release Wednesday, Nov.13, 2013 For more information contact: Leonie Haimson, leonie@classsizematters.org; 917-435-9329 LAWSUIT FILED IN NY STATE COURT TO PROTECT STUDENT PRIVACY AND BLOCK INBLOOM This morning, Wednesday November 13, a lawsuit and a request for a restraining order will be filed in the New York State Supreme Court in Albany against […]
According to reports, DoE has pushing Community Education Councils at the end of the year and the end of the Bloomberg reign to dezone the following districts: Districts 4, 5, 6 (twice), 7 (unzoned into two large preference zones this year), 12, 13, 14, 16, 17 and 23 (unzoned for MS this year). What does […]
New York State and NYC, along with 8 other states (MA, LA, CO, IL, NC, GA, DE, KY) and more on the way, have agreed to share confidential student and teacher data with a Gates-funded organization called inBloom, Inc. So far, Reuters, the NY Daily News, Hechinger Report, Politics 365, and The Denver Post have […]
Every year since 2007, NYC parents have voted smaller classes their #1 priority, according to the Department of Education’s own annual surveys. In addition, the state passed a law in 2007 called the Contracts for Excellence (C4E), requiring that NYC reduce class size in all grades, in return for receiving additional state aid. Yet class […]
New York is one of five states that have agreed to share confidential NYC student and teacher data in Phase I with the “Shared Learning Collaborative” or SLC, a project of the Gates Foundation. The other states and districts in Phase I include North Carolina (Guilford Co.), Colorado (Jefferson Co.), Illinois (Unit 5 Normal and […]
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.
