Testimonies & Comments
March 17, 2023 Hearings were held on Wed. before the Education committee of the City Council on the DOE preliminary budget and the Feb. amendment to the capital plan. During the hearings, the DOE admitted that they plan to cut school budgets even more next year, though they wouldn’t say by how much. Instead, the […]
March 17, 2023 in Testimonies & Comments, Updates by leoniehaimson
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District 20 is one of the most overcrowded school districts in the city. Here is the presentation I gave their Presidents Council (PTA presidents) on March 10, 2023.
March 14, 2023 in Presentations by leoniehaimson
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Our education budget priorities for next year, FY 2024, are here and below. They are focused on the need for schools to have their budgets restored and the cuts made this year reversed. If you agree with these proposals, please forward them to your City Council Member. We have also drafted a new resolution for […]
March 13, 2023 in Campaigns, Reports & Memos, Uncategorized, Updates by leoniehaimson
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March 9, 2023 See here or below, presentation provided the Public Advocate’s office.
March 11, 2023 in Presentations, Uncategorized by leoniehaimson
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March 5, 2023 The new proposed amendment to the 5-year capital plan for schools was recently released; you can check it out here. Compared to the capital plan adopted in June 2021, the DOE/SCA wants to cut the number of new school seats to be built by 38% — or over 21,000. This is inconceivable […]
March 5, 2023 in Reports & Memos, Uncategorized, Updates by leoniehaimson
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Here is a presentation on the class size/school overcrowding issue that we used to brief Speaker Adams’ staff earlier this month; it describes some of the challenges in terms of budgeting, space and enrollment that must be addressed if DOE is to achieve the smaller class size caps in the new state law.
February 24, 2023 in Presentations by leoniehaimson
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Updated March 5, 2023 You can send an email to your Legislators here, in opposition to Gov. Hochul’s proposal to lift the NYC charter cap and that instead the charter law needs to be strengthened, to eliminate NYC’s onerous and unfair obligation to provide all new and expanding charter schools with space, remove loopholes which […]
February 18, 2023 in Campaigns, Presentations, Uncategorized, Updates by leoniehaimson
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Feb. 12, 2023 Below see Class Size Matters’ testimony from last week’s State education budget hearings, which describe some of the many reasons we are extremely concerned that the DOE is not prepared to meet the class size limits in the new state law, especially in the out years, given repeated cuts to school budgets, […]
February 12, 2023 in Testimonies & Comments, Uncategorized, Updates by leoniehaimson
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January 25, 2023 For my account of these hearings, and the disappointing testimony of Deputy Chancellor Weisberg, see the NYC Public School Parent blog here. You can also read Jenn Choi’s testimony at that link, about the hurdles students with disabilities face being admitted to schools that meet their needs and allow them to reach […]
January 28, 2023 in Testimonies & Comments, Updates by leoniehaimson
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January 12, 2023 Yesterday, we re-ran the numbers on the Galaxy cuts to schools for this year, and the total net cuts at this point compared to last year are now at $823 million. Fully 86% of schools have experienced cuts to their budgets totaling $893 million, averaging about $655,000 each. See the table below. […]
January 13, 2023 in Reports & Memos, Uncategorized, Updates by leoniehaimson
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