For immediate release: July 22, 2022 Contact: Leonie Haimson: 917-435-9329; [email protected]; Laura D. Barbieri 914-819-3387; [email protected] Judge orders a temporary restraining order against budget cuts to schools In the lawsuit against the city’s attempt to radically cut budgets filed on July 18, Judge Lyle Frank of the NY State Supreme Court granted the […]
July 19, 2022 Dear all: Yesterday, a lawsuit was filed on behalf of four parents and teachers in the NY Supreme Court by the pro bono law firm, Advocates for Justice, to halt the Mayor’s damaging budget cuts to schools and require that the City Council have another opportunity to vote on the education budget. […]
Update: the lawsuit was covered by the Daily News, AM New York, Chalkbeat, and CBS radio so far. The legal papers are posted here. For immediate release: July 18, 2022 Contact: Leonie Haimson: 917-435-9329; [email protected]; Laura D. Barbieri 914-819-3387; [email protected] NYC Parents And Teachers File Lawsuit Today Against Mayor Adams’ Savage Cuts To School […]
For immediate release: July 1, 2022 Contact: Marina Marcou-O’Malley: 518-894-6834, [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Leonie Haimson: 917-435-9329; [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Anger and distress at Gov. Hochul refusing to sign class size bill along with mayoral control bill Parents, education advocates and elected officials reacted with dismay and alarm at the fact that Gov. Hochul signed the mayoral control bill last […]
June 21, 2022 Dear folks, Important updates: This Friday June 24 at 11:30 AM in front of City Hall there will be a press conference/rally to protest the devastating budget cuts to schools. Please come and bring signs. Then starting at noon, there will be hybrid Council hearings on these cuts, held by the NYC […]
June 7, 2022 Yesterday, school budgets for next year were released, and many if not most schools are facing MILLIONS of dollars in cuts compared to this year. A good article about these proposed cuts is here. You can find out how much your school’s budget has been cut by plugging its 4 digit DBN […]
June 12, 2022 Class Size Matters would like to invite you to our “Skinny Award” dinner to be held Monday, June 27 at 6 PM. This our first fundraiser in three years, and especially important this year as we have something really momentous to celebrate: the passage of a new state law that will require […]
Updated: June 5, 2022 The class size bill passed the NY State Senate Thursday afternoon at 59-4; and the Assembly early Friday morning; 147-2. Pretty good articles about the passage were published in Gothamist, Chalkbeat , Politics NY and News 4 NY. Other mainstream media outlets merely uncritically repeated long-debunked anti-class size myths. Now please […]
June 1, 2022 A new bill was introduced in the Legislature yesterday, supported by our elected leaders and a majority of both houses, that would require NYC DOE to phase in class size caps in all NYC public schools to be achieved over five years – to no more than 20 students in K-3, 23 […]
May 20, 2022 Dear folks — 1. The State Legislature will be in session only for twenty more days. Please call your Legislators today and urge them to pass the bills that would require NYC to phase in smaller classes in all grades. Tell them to support and bring to the floor for […]
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 .
