Why the City Council should vote no on the five-year proposed capital plan for schools
June 29, 2024 The vote is tomorrow at 2 PM. Feel free to forward to your Council Members. You can find their contact info here. Full pdf below and here.
Parents, educators, advocates & community leaders urge Mayor and Chancellor to improve their class size reduction “plan”
Articles in Chalkbeat and Brooklyn Reader. For immediate release: June 25, 2024 Contact: Leonie Haimson, 917-435-9329; [email protected] Parents, educators, advocates and community leaders urge Mayor Adams and Chancellor Banks to improve their class size reduction “plan” On June 24, 2024, about 570 NYC parents, educators, advocates and community leaders sent critical comments to […]
570 NYC parents, educators & community leaders say to DOE: fix your class size “plan”!
Press release here. Articles in Chalkbeat and Brooklyn Reader. June 24, 2024 This afternoon, we sent this petition to the Mayor and Chancellor, with copies to UFT and CSA, about the profound inadequacies in their draft class size “plan.” It was signed by about 570 NYC parents, educators, school staff, advocates and community leaders. If […]
Our legal action to stop the DOE from expanding online learning without parent consent
June 17, 2024 Last week, Class Size Matters and five parents launched a legal challenge to the DOE’s directive to schools regarding online learning. For more on this, see our press release, the legal papers, and articles in the Daily News and Politico. You can also listen to my interview on Talk out of School, […]
More on borough class size hearings and our annual Skinny award dinner
May 29, 2024 Dear all — 1- A reminder: the last two borough hearings on DOE’s ineffectual class size plan are going to be held tonight Wednesday, and tomorrow Thursday, via Zoom. Sign up here starting at 5 PM; our talking points about the positive steps the DOE should be taking instead to […]
Reminder! Class size hearings via Zoom for the Bronx tonight at 6 PM
May 22, 2024 Dear all — Just a quick reminder that Borough hearings on the DOE’s draft class size plan for next year begin tonight Wednesday, May 22 for Bronx residents via Zoom, and tomorrow Thursday for Manhattan residents. The full schedule is here: Bronx – Wednesday, May 22, 2024 (6:00pm) Manhattan – Thursday, May […]
Hearings on city’s class size plan starting Wednesday – make your voices heard!
May 20, 2024 Dear all — 1. Borough hearings on the DOE’s draft class size plan for next year begin this week this Wednesday, May 22 via Zoom. Please make your voices heard! Bronx – Wednesday, May 22, 2024 (6:00pm) Manhattan – Thursday, May 23, 2024 (6:00pm) Staten Island – Tuesday, May 28, 2024 (6:00pm) […]
Announcing the 2024 Skinny award winners; get your tickets now!
May 16, 2024 Dear all — 1. This year’s annual Skinny awards will be held on Wed. June 12 at 6 pm. Come celebrate and honor six independent parent members of the Panel for Educational Policy, who have valiantly spoken up for the interests of our students, and who despite great odds, […]
Last chance to sign up for Saturday’s Parent Action Conference
May 10, 2024 Dear all — Just alerting you in case you’ve been too busy– this is your last chance to sign up for our annual Parent Action Conference, co-sponsored by NYC Kids PAC, that will be held tomorrow Saturday May 11 starting at 10:30 AM with two great keynote speakers, discussing Mayoral control: where […]
Sign up for our Parent Conference this Saturday, DOE’s new non-class size plan, budget hearings and more!
May 8, 2024 Dear all — 1. Please sign up for our Parent Action Conference that will be held this Saturday, May 11 at 10:30 AM via Zoom. We will have two fantastic keynote speakers: law professor Natalie Gomez-Velez, the co-author of the excellent NYSED report on Mayoral control, and Sen. John Liu, […]
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Talk out of School: WBAI Sunday at 7 PM EST or as a podcast
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.
Skinny award dinner honoring Rep. Jamaal Bowman!
We held our annual Skinny award dinner Wed. June 28, 2023, honoring Rep. Jamaal Bowman, former Bronx principal and now a progressive trailblazer who is fighting in Congress to protect and improve our public schools. More photos on Facebook .
