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 […]
Legal documents, including the petition to the State Commissioner, the affidavits, DOE guidance, and the state regulations are posted here. On On June 16, a corrected version of the Appeal was filed, as well as an additional affidavit from Amy Ming Tsai, Bronx parent, so that parents from all five boroughs are represented. Articles about […]
For immediate release: May 8, 2024 Contact: Leonie Haimson, 917-435-9329; [email protected] Leonie Haimson, Executive Director of Class Size Matters, said, “It is evident from the new document posted by the DOE today that they have no intention of ever complying with the state class size law. They have had nearly two years to plan […]
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 […]
March 1, 2024 1. Just a quick note to say that tonight I will be participating on a panel discussing Mayoral Control and School Governance at 7 PM. You can check out the other panelists and sign up for the Zoom link here. 2. Thanks so much to those of you who testified at the […]
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 .
