Privacy briefing, update on Teenspace, and more evidence of DOE’s failure to plan for smaller classes
Oct. 17, 2024
- Save the date! A week from now, Wed. October 23, at 7 PM we will be holding a webinar on the threat to student privacy from breaches and the DOE practice of sharing student data with ed tech companies, social media, charter schools, and other unscrupulous third parties. All this is likely to worsen in the future with the unchecked growth of AI. We will also offer parents and teachers practical steps you can take to better protect your children’s data and their education records. Sign up here; a flyer you can share is here. Co- sponsored by Parent Coalition for Student Privacy, the Alliance for Quality Education, AI for Families, and Class Size Matters.
- We will also be discussing the city’s contract with Teenspace, an online mental health service, which we discovered discloses students’ personal information to a host of social media companies, including TikTok, Facebook, Google, Snapchat and others. Check out our follow-up letter to city officials sent today about these grave violations, co-signed with NYCLU and AI for Families.
- Finally, we recently sent a letter to Education Commissioner Betty Rosa on the city’s failure to enact an actual class size plan, pointing out that the number of students in overcrowded schools has only increased since the class size law was passed, and how this fall, DOE’s Office of District Planning has been giving presentations to CECs and Citywide Councils on proposals to close, co-locate, and make other changes to schools that may make it more difficult to lower class sizes in future years. Instead, these proposals should be targeted towards creating more space for smaller classes. What’s especially revealing is that while District Planning used to include class size data in their presentations, after the law was passed they removed all mention of class size.
- If your CEC has scheduled one of these District Planning presentations, let us know and attend if you can, to speak out on the need to plan for smaller classes. If your CEC, SLT or PA would like a presentation from us on what needs to happen instead to ensure all students receive their right to smaller classes as the law requires, let us know that as well.
Thanks Leonie
Leonie Haimson
Executive Director
Class Size Matters
124 Waverly Pl.
New York, NY 10011
phone: 917-435-9329
[email protected]
http://www.classsizematters.org/
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