Feb. 27, 2024 The NYC Council hearing on class size will be held THIS Thursday 2/29/24 at 1 PM; with a press conference at 12 noon in front of City Hall; please come to show your support! To testify remotely or in person sign up here: https://council.nyc.gov/testify/ If you do come to the press conference […]
March 7, 2024 Today, Chalkbeat featured an article about a charter school whose affiliated organization hugely inflated the rent on their own charter school to squeeze more money out of DOE. Our 2021 report contained many such examples of fraudulent behavior. Yet DOE is the only district in the state and the nation required to […]
Feb. 20, 2024 1.On Valentine’s Day last week, we received some exciting news. NY Attorney General Tish James had finally forced the College Board to sign a consent decree to halt their practice of selling the personal data of NY public school students– which has been illegal since the state student privacy law passed in […]
March 15, 2024 Just a brief email about three important events happening this week. First, this Sunday, March 17 at 7 PM, I’ll be hosting a special edition of Talk Out of School on WBAI on 99.5 FM, or www.wbai.org on the problems with the NYC mandated reading curriculum, with my guests: teacher Martina […]
January 30, 2024 Two important deadlines this week. 1- The deadline to submit your views on Mayoral control is tomorrow, Wed. January 31, at 5 PM. You can upload your testimony here. The borough hearings were very well attended, and the overwhelming number of speakers, whether parents, teachers or community members, were […]
Feb. 8, 2024 1.Save the date! The City Council Education Committee will hold a hearing on Thursday Feb. 29 at 1 PM on the proposals of the Class Size Working Group, and what the DOE is doing or not doing to lower class size. If you support the goal of smaller classes, please sign up […]
December 27,2023 Dear all — I hope you are having a restful and rewarding break during the holidays. We here at Class Size Matters wanted to share with you an eloquent letter written by youth advocate Al Kurland to NY Education Commissioner Rosa, urging her to demand a real class size plan from DOE, […]
Dec. 22, 2023 Just a quick note to let you know that yesterday, the UFT filed a lawsuit to block the Mayor’s cuts to education, based on the claim that these proposed cuts violate two state laws. For more on this lawsuit, including links to news articles, check out our NYC parent blog here. Also, […]
December 20, 2023 In June 2022, NYC students, parents, and teachers had a great victory with the passage of a new state law that would require class sizes be lowered in our public schools, starting this fall. In 2023, we at Class Size Matters worked to try to ensure that the law will be followed […]
December 12, 2023 Dear all: 1.Yesterday, the report of the Class Size Working Group was finally released – of which I was a member. It is the result of months of hard work and is chock full of detailed, equitable and actionable recommendations for how the DOE can comply with the new class size – […]
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 .
