Help us help kids in 2019!

Today is the last day of 2018. This year may be nearly over, but our fight for smaller classes and student privacy is still as critical as ever. We need your support to continue our work; please make a tax-deductible donation to Class Size Matters today.

Our organization only survives because of contributors like you, dedicated to the goal that every child, no matter his or her background, deserves the close attention from their teachers that can only happen if class sizes are small enough. In 2003, NY state’s highest court agreed that NYC kids were denied their constitutional right to a sound basic education because their class sizes were too large; sadly, they are even larger now than when this decision was made.

Please click here to contribute; if you’d like your donation to go to our work defending student privacy, an equally crucial issue that we have focused on during the last few years, you can indicate that on the line which says “designate your donation to a specific program or fund.”

If you value our advocacy, analysis and commentary, please show your support.

Happy New York, Leonie

PS Here are some recent entries on our blog:

• How corporate reformers have become embedded in the Office of District Planning…
• Please give so we can continue our fight for smaller classes…
• Highlights of 2018 in books, education policy and politics …
• Superficial and biased coverage of the controversy over personalized learning in Chalkbeat…
• DOE and SCA going backwards in terms of rational school planning …
• New report finds pre-K expansion has led to worse school overcrowding…
• Parents ask, where are the schools?
• Letter to Chancellor Carranza, urging him to reduce class size in the Renewal schools…
• Updated: Gates grant to NYSED for more PR around standards, testing and data collection…