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Our Parent Action Conference 2025 was a great success!

Our June 7 Parent Action Conference was a great success, with terrific speeches from former principal and Congressman Jamaal Bowman and NYC Council Education Chair Rita Joseph, as well as informative presentations, thought-provoking discussions and a call to action.  If your CEC or community group would like a similar presentation on any of the topics […]

June 11, 2025 in Events, Reports & Memos, Uncategorized, Updates by

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Talking points for Class size hearings, June 10-June 16 2025

July 9, 2025 There will be hearings on the city’s class size plan July 10-June 16, 2025.  Each session starts at 6 PM via Zoom; but you can start logging on at 5 PM at  https://learndoe.org/contractforexcellence The list of hearings by borough is below but you can attend ANY of these meetings, wherever you live, […]

June 9, 2025 in Testimonies & Comments, Uncategorized by

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Please speak at this week’s Zoom hearings on class size!

June 9, 2025 The mandated hearings on the city’s class size plan for the 2025-2026 school year begin tomorrow.  The Bronx hearing already occurred last week, but you can attend any of these meetings wherever you live, teach or your child attends schools. They each begin at 6 PM, but you can log in as […]

June 9, 2025 in Presentations, Testimonies & Comments, Uncategorized, Updates by

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List of schools receiving class size reduction funds for 2025-2026

The original DOE spreadsheet listing schools by DBN & number of teachers to be hired is posted here. “

June 9, 2025 in Reports & Memos, Uncategorized, Updates by

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Testimony concerning the privacy violations of NYC Teenspace

Nov. 25, 2024 See below; and here. Our testimony to the NYC Council Health committee about our continuing concerns with the privacy violations of Talkspace, with whom the NYC Dept. of Health has a $26 million contract to provide free mental health counseling to teens; “

June 1, 2025 in Testimonies & Comments by

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Risks of using AI in the Classroom

Cross posted at Parent Coalition for Student Privacy website. April 8, 2025 The annual conference of Network for Public Education, on whose board I sit, was held last weekend in Columbus, Ohio.  It was terrific as usual, with wonderful speeches and incisive and illuminating workshops and panel discussions on how to strengthen our public schools […]

April 8, 2025 in Presentations, Uncategorized, Updates by

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Class Size Matters’ exchange with School Construction Authority regarding their lax governance policies and non-compliant capital plan

UPDATED April 14, 2025 According to Twitter and the SCA website, the Mayor finally appointed Elizabeth Bergin as the third member of the SCA Board, after leaving the position vacant for almost two years. Bergin is the the Senior Vice President of Research, Evaluation and Strategy at the YMCA, and previously served as the SCA […]

March 26, 2025 in Reports & Memos, Uncategorized, Updates by

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Our testimony on the critical failings of DOE and SCA in planning for class size reduction

March 14, 2025 Here and below is the testimony that Michael Rance, our Research Director, gave on behalf of Class Size Matters at the preliminary budget hearing yesterday. Our testimony highlighted the many failings of DOE and the School Construction Authority in delivering a multi-year plan capable of meeting the benchmarks in the class size […]

March 17, 2025 in Testimonies & Comments, Uncategorized, Updates by

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500 NYC schools without enough space for smaller classes, according to DOE

In December 2024, DOE quietly posted on its website a Table entitled Class Size Space Analysis 2024-2025 , consisting of a list of all non-D75 schools, showing which schools in their estimation do or do not have the space currently to lower class sizes to the levels required by law.  According to this list, 495 […]

March 7, 2025 in Reports & Memos, Uncategorized, Updates by

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Why DOE should be moving more PreK classes to CBOs to provide critical benefits to students and the city as a whole

Feb. 20, 2025 Today we provided testimony at NYC Council Education hearings, in opposition to the DOE plan to to cancel the leases of five Community Based Organizations that provide Early Education services in Brooklyn and Queens.  During the hearing, the DOE officials said they intend in the future to cancel contracts with CBO providers […]

February 21, 2025 in Testimonies & Comments, Uncategorized, Updates by

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