I have much important news to report: 1. Starting May 2, the NY State Education Department is holding forums around the state to hear from parents on how they would like to see the NY student privacy law strengthened, clarified and enforced. This law was passed in 2014 as a result of the controversy over the […]
1-This week marks the beginning of state testing for grades 3-8 in New York. Check out my blog post on why many parents are still opting their children out of these tests– and why you should consider doing so as well. The exams have no diagnostic value, and have led to an era of damaging test prep, […]
3/28/18 Yesterday, parents from PS 25 in Brooklyn filed a lawsuit to keep their school from closing. The closure proposal, approved by the Panel on Educational Policy last month, is especially shocking given that PS 25 is the fourth best public elementary school in the city and the second best in Brooklyn according to the DOE’s own […]
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 […]
Our annual Parent Action Conference (flyer here and below), 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.) After a call to action […]
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
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 .
