Mayor de Blasio’s Education Report Card
For immediate release: April 19, 2015 Contact: Shino Tanikawa, 917-770-8438, shinot@verizon.net Leonie Haimson, 917-435-9329, leonie@classsizematters.org Parents and Advocates release Education report card for Mayor de Blasio Grades range from As to Fs in many crucial areas Today, Sunday April 19 at noon, in front of the Department of Education headquarters at Tweed, […]
Resolution on Class size and School Overcrowding
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 […]
Please attend class size hearings starting this week and make your voices heard!
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 […]
On inBloom’s demise
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 […]
PROTECTING STUDENT PRIVACY AS PART OF THE NYS BUDGET BILL
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 the petition to Chancellor Fariña to reverse the damaging co-locations
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 […]
NY LAWSUIT FILED TO PROTECT STUDENT PRIVACY AND BLOCK INBLOOM
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 […]
Warning to parents & CECs considering dezoning and video from Harlem D5 hearing
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 […]
Opt out letter for New York State parents who do not want their child’s confidential information shared with private corporations
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 […]
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