On Friday May 6, Dr. Betty Rosa, the new Chancellor of the NY Board of Regents, spoke about her vision to transform our public schools. Juan Gonzalez, investigative reporter, moderated and asked questions. Dr. Rosa is an experienced and eloquent former NYC principal and Superintendent who has been critical of many aspects of the status […]
April 27, 2016 Dear Friend, Two exciting events coming up soon: 1. On Friday May 6, Dr. Betty Rosa, the new Chancellor of the NY Board of Regents, will be speaking about her vision to transform our public schools. Juan Gonzalez, investigative reporter, will moderate and ask questions. Dr. Rosa is an experienced and […]
Leonie Haimson presented at the Connecticut Education Association Informational Forum on Student Privacy & Data Mining on January 21, 2016. You can watch Leonie’s presentation via Connecticut Network, here and view her power point below as well as download the PDF here.
April 11, 2016 Dear Friend, Clearly there were many problems with this year’s NY state ELA exams. These included overly long, dense and grade-inappropriate reading passages with numerous typos, abstruse vocabulary and confusing questions; commercial product placements; reading passages drawn from Pearson test prep materials; missing or mislabeled pages in test booklets: and children taking […]
April 3, 2016 Dear Friend, It’s that time of year: Starting Tuesday, public school students throughout the state will be subjected to three days of the burdensome, stressful, overly long, confusing and poorly constructed ELA exams. The math exams will be held from April 13 –15. (Schedule here.) Check out our blog for some of the numerous reasons you should consider opting […]
March 30, 2016 Dear Friend, 1. In a few weeks, the Network for Public Education will hold our annual conference in Raleigh NC from April 16-17. Among the keynote speakers will be Diane Ravitch, Rev. William Barber and author Bob Herbert. I will be leading two workshops, one on student privacy and the other on real “Personalized Learning”, […]
March 21, 2016 Dear Friend, 1. Dr. Betty Rosa was just voted as Chancellor of the New York Board of Regents. She is a former teacher, principal and Superintendent from the Bronx, and will be a voice for social justice, for smaller classes, for all those programs that children need for a truly equitable chance at success. She […]
March 9, 2016 Dear Friend, Yesterday the City Council Education Committee held hearings on the still underfunded DOE capital plan for school construction and repair. Check out our blog here for our testimony and DOE responses to Council Members’ probing questions; here is the NY 1 story. Thanks especially to the many parent and community leaders who […]
March 7, 2016 Dear Friend, 1. Update on student privacy: Deputy Commissioner Beth Berlin has assured us that no personally identifiable information will be collected as a result of the new NYSED Gates grant, and no data will be linked to any pre-existing personal information that the state has already collected. She also said that it […]
February 26, 2016 Dear Friend, Our schools are more overcrowded than ever! We need a bigger capital plan to build more schools AND to fix the broken school planning process. Class sizes are growing, countless schools have lost their art, music, and science rooms, and too many special needs students receive their services in […]
Sign the petition asking for a moratorium on the use of AI until rigorous safeguards are established to protect student privacy, learning and the environment.
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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, Daniel Alicea and Kaliris Salas Ramirez interview guests and discuss issues affecting public schools in NYC, the state level and nationally. You can stream or subscribe to the podcast here at Simplecast; or at iTunes, Spotify or Google.
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.
