April 22, 2024 Dear all — The State budget was finalized on Friday, and to the disappointment of many, it extended Mayoral control for another two years. This occurred due to the insistence of the Governor, and despite the express wishes of many Legislators, who had said that this important issue needed careful consideration and […]
May 1, 2024 Dear all: 1. On Saturday May 11 at 10:30 AM, Class Size Matters will be holding our annual Parent Action Conference, co-sponsored by NYC Kids PAC. Our keynote speakers, Sen. John Liu and CUNY Law professor Natalie Gomez-Velez, the co-author of the NYSED study of Mayoral control, will discuss why […]
April 15, 2024 Last week the State Education Department released an excellent report, summarizing the public testimony at the borough hearings and in writing on Mayoral control, and analyzing our NYC school governance system compared to others across the country. The report contained recommendations about how the system should be changed, by giving more voice […]
Check out our critique and comments on DOE’s talking points here and below.
Here and below.
March 1, 2024 1. Just a quick note to say that tonight I will be participating on a panel discussing Mayoral Control and School Governance at 7 PM. You can check out the other panelists and sign up for the Zoom link here. 2. Thanks so much to those of you who testified at the […]
Feb. 27, 2024 The NYC Council hearing on class size will be held THIS Thursday 2/29/24 at 1 PM; with a press conference at 12 noon in front of City Hall; please come to show your support! To testify remotely or in person sign up here: https://council.nyc.gov/testify/ If you do come to the press conference […]
March 7, 2024 Today, Chalkbeat featured an article about a charter school whose affiliated organization hugely inflated the rent on their own charter school to squeeze more money out of DOE. Our 2021 report contained many such examples of fraudulent behavior. Yet DOE is the only district in the state and the nation required to […]
Feb. 20, 2024 1.On Valentine’s Day last week, we received some exciting news. NY Attorney General Tish James had finally forced the College Board to sign a consent decree to halt their practice of selling the personal data of NY public school students– which has been illegal since the state student privacy law passed in […]
March 15, 2024 Just a brief email about three important events happening this week. First, this Sunday, March 17 at 7 PM, I’ll be hosting a special edition of Talk Out of School on WBAI on 99.5 FM, or www.wbai.org on the problems with the NYC mandated reading curriculum, with my guests: teacher Martina […]
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.
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 .
