On June 15, 2015 Public Advocate Letitia James, 22 Council Members, many parent leaders and Presidents of Community Education Councils, along with Class Size Matters and the UFT, sent a letter to the Chancellor and the Mayor, urging them to double the seats in the capital plan for school construction, and appoint a Commission to […]
Click on the link below to watch Leonie Haimson on NY1 Inside City Hall with an education panel discussion on the Common Core. http://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/inside-city-hall/2015/04/16/ny1-online–education-panel-debates-common-core.html
Watch the video below for my discussion on To the Point on BK live about why parents are opting out of NYS standardized tests.
Click the link below to listen to the interview with Heather Kay from the Heartland Institution and Leonie Haimson on the student privacy laws in the U.S. Leonie Haimson: Student Privacy Laws in the U.S.
For immediate release: November 18, 2014 For more information contact: Leonie Haimson, 917-435-9329, [email protected] Josey Bartlett, (718) 803-6373 x 202, [email protected] Class size averages drop slightly this fall in grades K-3 and 4th-8th, but grow in HS At least 367,794 students remain in classes of 30 or more Late Friday, the DOE released class size […]
Teacher Unions Put to Test: http://video.cnbc.com/gallery/?video=3000115361&play=1
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September 28, 2010 final_press_release_Education_Nation_9.28.10.pdf
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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 .
