April 15, 2026 A quick reminder and update: 1. Please join other NYC parents, students, teachers and advocates tomorrow Thursday April 16 at City Hall Park, when we will call for a moratorium on the use of AI in the classroom and deliver our petition and also national letter on the issue to […]
April 13, 2026 1. On Thursday April 16 at 4:00 PM, NYC parents, kids, teachers and advocates will be gathering in City Hall Park to call for a moratorium on the use of AI in the classroom until rigorous measures can be established to protect student privacy, their cognitive development, critical thinking, mental […]
April 2, 2026 It was recently announced that as part of a class action court settlement, the ed tech company PowerSchool and the Chicago Public Schools agreed to pay a total of $17.25 million to students whose privacy was violated by Naviance, a college advising company acquired by PowerSchool in 2021. In turn, PowerSchool was […]
March 25, 2026 A lot has happened in the last two days. On Monday, education budget hearings were held at City Hall. It soon became apparent that nearly four years since the class size law was passed, the DOE still has no actual plan to comply. Chancellor Samuels admitted that it is unlikely that they […]
March 16, 2026 We’re holding a class size briefing and conversation via Zoom this Thursday, March 19 at 6 PM for anyone who has questions about what the DOE is currently doing or not doing on class size, what they are proposing to do next year, and/or if you would like to share what’s happening […]
March 10, 2026 Dear all: Parents, teachers and others should attend the Chancellor’s upcoming Listening Sessions to make your voice heard on the issues that concern you, whether this be the failure of the DOE to provide space for the hundreds of schools that do not have the room at their current enrollment to lower […]
January 22, 2026 The Brookings Institution released a new report, saying the risks of using AI in schools to student learning, privacy, safety, and social and emotional development currently outweigh the benefits. Check out the one-page summary, the full report here, or this NPE piece. I am interviewing the main author of this report, Rebecca […]
Jan. 1, 2026 Just a quick update to let you know that yesterday, Zohran Mamdani announced that he was appointing District 3 Superintendent Kamar Samuels as his Chancellor. He also said he was renouncing his previous position that Mayoral control needs reform, expressed frequently during his campaign, and that he would ask the Legislature to […]
Dec. 29, 2025 This has been a watershed year for class size in NYC public schools. Nearly 750 schools lowered class size this fall to far smaller levels, and about 60% of classes achieved the benchmarks required by the law which we helped pass in 2022. In these classrooms, teachers are ecstatic about the changes […]
Dec. 22, 2025 The DOE is rapidly expanding the use of AI in our schools, despite the glaring lack of guidelines or guardrails, and despite the growing evidence that AI use may undermine student privacy, cognitive skills, critical thinking, creativity and the health of the local and global environment. I was quoted in this Chalkbeat […]
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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.
