1. Our annual Skinny award dinner is only a week away on Tuesday, June 19 at 6 PM. Get your tickets now! It’s always one of the most delightful nights of the year. More info on the awardees, including Council Member Dromm, Norm Scott, Fred Smith and a mystery awardee here. 2. There are only four more student […]
Please reserve your seat now for our Annual Skinny Award dinner on Tuesday June 19. We will be honoring four tremendous individuals who have given us the “real skinny” on NYC public schools: Council Member Danny Dromm, Chair of the Finance Committee & former Education Chair Norm Scott, retired teacher and blogger/videographer extraordinaire Fred Smith, testing expert and critic […]
1. Please save the date for our annual Skinny awards, which will be held this year on Tuesday, June 19. We will be honoring some very special people and you don’t want to miss it! It’s always one of our most joyous annual events, in which we celebrate our wins and gain strength for the battles […]
The awful shootings at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida have aroused much sorrow, anger and a greater awareness of the need to better protect children so that this sort of event never happens again. Class Size Matters, along with the Network for Public Education and many other groups, is helping to organize […]
1. Yesterday’s press conference with parent leaders urging the Mayor to involve parents in a transparent public process to select a new Chancellor was a great success. About 30 parent activists turned up even in the rain, and we received good coverage in the Daily News, NY1, Wall St. Journal and elsewhere. Check out my blog for […]
Just a quick reminder about the press event tomorrow Tues. Jan. 23, at 10 AM on the steps of Tweed, with CPAC, CECs & Citywide Councils leaders. Join us in urging the Mayor to give parents a voice in the selection of a new Chancellor! Our Parent Action Conference is just a few days away on Saturday, […]
1. Yesterday, the NYS Education Department revealed that there had been a breach of personal student data from Questar, the state’s testing company. According to Questar, only 52 students were affected and no highly sensitive data was released. For more on this, including remaining questions that need to be answered, see the press release today from NYSAPE and the […]
Dear Sebastian, Happy New Year! Our annual Parent Action Conference, co-sponsored by Class Size Matters, NYC Kids PAC and CEC2, will be held Saturday, Jan. 27, 2018 at the Peck Slip School in downtown Manhattan (Take the A,C, 2, 3, 4, 5, J, or Z trains to Fulton Street; map here.) Here is a flyer you can send to colleagues […]
Dear Activist, Thanks so much if you’ve given already to Class Size Matters and if not, tonight is your last chance to make a tax-deductible donation in 2017. Happy New Year to all! — Leonie
Dear Activist, Please contribute to Class Size Matters, the only nonprofit focused on advocating for smaller classes and student privacy. Sadly, class sizes have increased in New York and in many other states since the great recession, and may increase even more given the Trump administration’s actions to defund […]
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 .
