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Three ways to help us ensure NYC kids get smaller classes!

June 16, 2025 This Wednesday night, June 18, at 6:30 PM we are holding our annual Skinny Award dinner, to honor Commissioner Betty Rosa as the first state education leader in the nation to openly defy Trump’s attempt to eliminate diversity and equity from our schools. If you appreciate her courage, and/or value the work […]

June 16, 2025 in Newsletters, Updates by

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Sign up for our Parent Action Conference Saturday, with Jamaal Bowman

Thursday June 5, 2025 Just a quick message reminding you about our Parent Action Conference this Saturday, June 7 starting at 10 AM via Zoom and starring the eloquent Jamaal Bowman on how to fight the Trump agenda, followed by numerous workshops on topics critical for parents, along with an action agenda for our schools. Sign up here to reserve your seat. Also, don’t forget:  Wed. evening, June 18, we will  be […]

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Please come to our Skinny award dinner on June 18 honoring Betty Rosa!

Monday June 2, 2025 1. Please come to our annual “Skinny award” dinner on Wed. June 18, at 6:30 PM. This year we will be honoring NY Education Commissioner Dr. Betty Rosa, who has provided strong and progressive leadership for the New York State’s education system for the last four years, and before that decades of achievement as a ESL teacher, Bronx […]

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Important vote on Staten Island tonight on student privacy

Wednesday May 28, 2025 Sorry for the last minute notice, but there’s an important vote tonight Wed., May 28, 2025 at 6 PM of the Panel for Educational Policy at the Michael J. Petrides School (715 Ocean Terrace, Staten Island). On the agenda is revising and weakening Chancellor’s regulation A 820 on student privacy. According to these […]

May 28, 2025 in Newsletters by

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Parent leaders, elected officials, advocates & members of Chancellor’s Data Privacy Working Group urge vote on student privacy to be postponed

The letter is embedded below the press release. For immediate release: May 27, 2025 For more information: Leonie Haimson, info@studentprivacymatters.org; 917-435-9329 Rosa Diaz, Rdiaz.cec4@gmail.com; 347-885-1687 Shannon Edwards, shannon@aiforfamilies.com; 347-719-2161 Kaye Dyja, kdyja@nyclu.org; 212-203-3532 On Wednesday May 28, 2025, the Panel for Educational Policy is scheduled to vote on the revisions to Chancellor’s regulation A-820, which […]

May 27, 2025 in Press Releases, Uncategorized, Updates by

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Sign up for our annual Parent Action Conference, DOE’s posted class size plan for next year, and more!

We will be hosting our annual Parent Action Conference, co-sponsored by NYC Kids PAC on Saturday, June 7, from 10 AM – 1:30 PM, via Zoom. The Keynote will be given by former NYC principal and Congressman Jamaal Bowman, who will speak about how we can defend our schools against the Trump assault on public […]

May 21, 2025 in Newsletters, Updates by

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New revelations showing DOE’s continuing lack of concern for the privacy and safety of NYC students – please sign our letter to the Chancellor today!

May 16, 2025 1.Please read and sign our letter, already signed by several members of the Chancellor’s Data Privacy Working Group as well as advocacy organizations and NYC Council Members, in opposition to the weakening of DOE’s student privacy protections in their proposed amendments to Chancellor’s regulation A-820. If you would like to sign on, please fill out […]

May 16, 2025 in Newsletters, Updates by

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Urge your Council Member to require DOE to provide sufficient space for smaller classes!

May 13, 2025 1. The NYC Council Education and Finance Committees are holding a hearing on the DOE budget and the School Capital Plan a week from today on Tuesday May 20; you can sign up here to testify. The hearing begins at 10 AM but public testimony won’t start until the afternoon and you can […]

May 13, 2025 in Newsletters, Updates by

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Will you help us continue the fight for smaller classes?

April 30, 2025 Tomorrow’s my birthday, and I’ve been reflecting on many things, including our advocacy for smaller classes and student privacy over many years. Despite all the challenges we’ve faced, I am proud of the community of parents, teachers, and concerned advocates we have built. You have helped Class Size Matters accomplish so much […]

May 1, 2025 in Newsletters, Uncategorized, Updates by

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746 schools will be able to lower class size next year! but will Mayor Adams help the schools left out?

April 9. 2025 Yesterday, at a press conference at PS 88 in Queens, the Mayor, the Chancellor, the UFT and CSA with great fanfare announced that 746 schools will receive funding for next year to hire an additional 3700 teachers to lower class size. It was somewhat amazing to see how Mayor Adams, who has […]

April 10, 2025 in Newsletters, Uncategorized, Updates by

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