This letter was sent to the Mayor and Chancellor this week. A press release is here; the Daily News reported on it here. If you would like to support this campaign, please send an email directly to the Mayor and Chancellor by clicking here. October 23, 2018 Dear Mayor de Blasio and Chancellor Carranza: […]
Here is the presentation on school overcrowding and the need to fully fund the need for seats that we gave to the Chancellors Parent Advisory Council on Oct. 11, 2018. If you’d like to request Class Size Matters to brief your CEC, Presidents Council or parent association with more district-specific data, please email us at […]
Sept. 24, 2018 The next five-year capital plan for schools will be introduced sometime in the next two months. In May 2016, Mayor de Blasio promised that he would fully fund the capacity portion of the new plan, to alleviate current overcrowding and address future enrollment growth. Based upon a Nov. 2017 estimate, this meant […]
August 11, 2018 The NY State Education Department has proposed regulations that could punish schools with high opt out rates by mislabeling them as failing, and that could force them to use Title I funds to persuade parents to have their children take the state exams. These regs would also allow the Commissioner to unilaterally […]
September 6, 2018 Welcome back to a new school year! The good news in NYC is that we finally have a Chancellor, Richard Carranza, who is progressive and believes in the importance of class size. The bad news is that neither he nor the mayor have put in place any specific programs or incentives to […]
This media release is also available here. For immediate release: July 17, 2018 For more information contact: Leonie Haimson; leoniehaimson@gmail.com; 917-435-9329. On Monday, July 16, 2018, Brooke Parker, a NYC public school parent, filed a lawsuit against the Office of the Mayor of the City of New York, challenging the almost complete redaction […]
Below is the our testimony Class Size Matters gave at the City Council hearings on tackling school overcrowding by improving the efficiency and accuracy of school planning and siting. It is also available as a pdf here. More about these hearings on our NYC Public School Parents blog here. Class Size Matters testimony before […]
For immediate release: Monday April 16, 2018 Contact: Leonie Haimson, leoniehaimson@gmail; 917-435-9329 On Thursday April 12, 2018, Class Size Matters, the Alliance for Quality Education and nine parents from all five New York City boroughs filed a lawsuit against the NYC Chancellor Carranza, the Department of Education, and NY Education Commissioner Elia in the […]
For Immediate Release: Tuesday, March 27, 2018 Contact: Leonie Haimson, 917-435-9329; leoniehaimson@gmail.com Today a lawsuit was filed in the Brooklyn State Supreme Court against the proposed closure of P.S. 25 Eubie Blake in District 16, Brooklyn, a zoned neighborhood school, which Chancellor Carmen Farina and the Board of Education are attempting to close without […]
Feb. 28, 2018 During yesterday’s City Council hearings on Renewal schools, in response to a question from CM Alicka Samuels, Laura Feijoo of DOE underestimated the number of schools co-located with charter schools that DOE now proposes to close, merge or truncate. Of these 19 schools, 12 are co-located with charter schools, as listed below. […]
Please join us for a virtual Class Size Briefing this Sunday June 28th, where we will speak about the changes to the class size law, point out flaws in the DOE's proposed plan for next year, and provide everyone with strategies for advocating for smaller classes for all NYC students!
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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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.
