May 29, 2024 Dear all — 1- A reminder: the last two borough hearings on DOE’s ineffectual class size plan are going to be held tonight Wednesday, and tomorrow Thursday, via Zoom. Sign up here starting at 5 PM; our talking points about the positive steps the DOE should be taking instead to […]
May 22, 2024 Dear all — Just a quick reminder that Borough hearings on the DOE’s draft class size plan for next year begin tonight Wednesday, May 22 for Bronx residents via Zoom, and tomorrow Thursday for Manhattan residents. The full schedule is here: Bronx – Wednesday, May 22, 2024 (6:00pm) Manhattan – Thursday, May […]
May 16, 2024 Dear all — 1. This year’s annual Skinny awards will be held on Wed. June 12 at 6 pm. Come celebrate and honor six independent parent members of the Panel for Educational Policy, who have valiantly spoken up for the interests of our students, and who despite great odds, […]
May 8, 2024 Dear all — 1. Please sign up for our Parent Action Conference that will be held this Saturday, May 11 at 10:30 AM via Zoom. We will have two fantastic keynote speakers: law professor Natalie Gomez-Velez, the co-author of the excellent NYSED report on Mayoral control, and Sen. John Liu, […]
June 3, 2024 Dear all — I would like to invite you to the annual Class Size Matter award dinner on Wed. June 12 to support this important organization on whose board I sit. We will be honoring the independent parent members of the Panel for Educational Policy, the NYC school board, who have […]
June 6, 2024 School budgets allocations dropped today for next year, and serious problems remain. The DOE has allocated only $137M to hire more teachers for class size reduction, which is inadequate and spread too thin over too many schools. Nearly 500 schools are receiving less than $100,000, which is not enough to hire even […]
April 17, 2024 Because of a cyberattack that hit Albany, negotiations over Mayoral control and the budget are temporarily on hold. Meanwhile, the only education organization that has publicly come out in favor of extending Mayoral control is the charter school lobby – whose schools are not governed by the Mayor, though he’s done them […]
April 22, 2024 Dear all — The State budget was finalized on Friday, and to the disappointment of many, it extended Mayoral control for another two years. This occurred due to the insistence of the Governor, and despite the express wishes of many Legislators, who had said that this important issue needed careful consideration and […]
May 1, 2024 Dear all: 1. On Saturday May 11 at 10:30 AM, Class Size Matters will be holding our annual Parent Action Conference, co-sponsored by NYC Kids PAC. Our keynote speakers, Sen. John Liu and CUNY Law professor Natalie Gomez-Velez, the co-author of the NYSED study of Mayoral control, will discuss why […]
April 15, 2024 Last week the State Education Department released an excellent report, summarizing the public testimony at the borough hearings and in writing on Mayoral control, and analyzing our NYC school governance system compared to others across the country. The report contained recommendations about how the system should be changed, by giving more voice […]
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 .
