Feb. 15, 2025 1. Parents: a quick note to let you know that the deadline to run for your District Community Education or Citywide Council is tomorrow, Sunday Feb. 16. With all the chaos and corruption of the Trump administration and apparently the Mayor’s office as well, this is a way you can […]
Feb. 7, 2025 An important update on privacy news: 1.As reported by the Daily News last night, four NYC schools were affected by the massive PowerSchool breach that occurred in December- contrary to previous assurances from the DOE: Fordham HS for the Arts; Long Island City High School; Lower East Side Prep and Westchester Square […]
Jan. 28, 2025 Dear all: Before the holiday break, about NYC schools were given an opportunity to apply for funding to lower class size next fall. The UFT now says that about 750 schools did apply, according to an article in Chalkbeat. We have posted a very short survey, asking if your school applied for […]
Dec. 29, 2024 Dear all — I hope you are having a wonderful holiday break. For many years, Class Size Matters has led the fight for smaller classes in NYC, which culminated in a new law passed in the Legislature, requiring class sizes be phased-in at all NYC schools. This reform was long overdue, given […]
Dec. 23, 2024 1. Just a quick note to let you know that along with the Education Law Center, we sent a letter to Commissioner Rosa last week, pointing out specific ways that NYC has been flouting the class size law. We urged her to require that DOE produce a five-year class size plan as […]
December 16, 2024 Please sign our petition if you haven’t already, urging DOE to implement a real five-year class size plan, including providing more space for those schools that need it. More than 600 people have so far, but we’d like to get to a thousand signers before the New Year. Last week, we briefed […]
For immediate release: December 23, 2024 Contact: Leonie Haimson: 917-435-9329; [email protected] Wendy Lecker: (203) 536-7567, [email protected] On December 18, Class Size Matters and the Education Law Center sent a letter to Commissioner Betty Rosa, pointing out the failures of the NYC Department of Education (DOE) to comply with the class size law. The two organizations […]
Oct. 21, 2024 Please send a letter today to the Chancellor, the DOE Chief Privacy officer and the members of the Panel for Educational Policy, in opposition to proposed revisions to Chancellor’s regulation A-820 pertaining to student privacy. If adopted, these proposals would allow the DOE to share student names, email addresses, phone numbers, home […]
Oct. 23, 2024 Just a quick note to let you know that it’s not too late to sign up for our special student privacy briefing tonight at 7 PM EST, co-sponsored with AQE, to hear how you can help better protect your child’s personal data and their safety from predatory advertising, breach, and abuse. Just […]
Oct. 29, 2024 1. Good news! Because of the concerns we expressed in the letter sent last week to DOE, pointing out the many serious flaws in their proposed revisions to Chancellor’s regulation A-820 on student privacy, and the more than 3,000 emails sent by many of you, the DOE has agreed to put off […]
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 .
