Reports & Memos

The response from the School Construction Authority regarding their lax governance policies and non compliant capital plan, and our reply

March 26, 2025 Last Thursday morning, I spoke at the School Construction Authority board meeting, explaining how they have failed to fulfill their legal and ethical obligations to provide schools with the space necessary to comply with the class size law and the requirements of the Public Authorities Law. Here and below is the testimony […]

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, 2024 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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Our letter with Ed Law Center, urging Commissioner to require NYC comply with class size law

December 18, 2024 A press release about our letter is posted here.  The letter is posted here and below. “

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No apparent relationship between class size funding allocated to schools and classes added to lower class size

December 12, 2024 The class size law requires that the DOE must provide in its annual Implementation Report “a detailed description of how contract for excellence funds contributed to achieving class size reduction in each school that received such funding including specific information on the number of classes in each school that existed prior to […]

December 12, 2024 in Presentations, Reports & Memos, Uncategorized by

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Presentation to CPAC: Problems with DOE’s failure to plan for class size reduction

Dec. 12, 2024 Today, we provided a briefing to the Chancellors Parent Advisory Council on the serious problems with the DOE’s implementation of class size reduction, as required by the class size law.  Their most glaring failing is the fact that there has been no move to provide space for overcrowded or overenrolled schools. In […]

December 12, 2024 in Presentations, Uncategorized, Updates by

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Resolution Urging the DOE to Implement a Multi-year Plan that will Provide All NYC Students with the Benefits of Smaller Classes

Nov. 2024 – updated Jan. 2025 We have drafted the following resolution for CECs, Community Boards and other groups to consider, urging the DOE to create and implement a actual multi-year class size plan, that would enable schools to cap enrollment at lower levels if that will be  necessary for them to cap class sizes […]

November 20, 2024 in Testimonies & Comments, Uncategorized, Updates by

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Serious concerns with DOE’s proposed weakening of their student privacy regulations & how you can help!

Oct. 21, 2024 Check out the letter here  and below, sent today on behalf of Class Size Matters and the Parent Coalition for Student Privacy to the DOE’s chief privacy officer Dennis Doyle, copied to the Chancellor and the members of the Panel for Educational Policy, about the unacceptable way the DOE now proposes to […]

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Yet more evidence that DOE has no plan to lower class size to mandated levels

October 17, 2024 See our letter to Commissioner Rosa here and  below,  that provides yet more evidence that DOE has no actual plan to lower class size as the state law requires.  It points out how the number of students in overcrowded schools has only increased since the class size law was passed, and how […]

October 17, 2024 in Reports & Memos, Uncategorized, Updates by

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