According to the Contracts for Excellence (C4E) law, the DOE is supposed to be reducing class size in all grades. The city submitted a plan to do so in the fall of 2007, along with annual targets and five year goals. Instead, class size has risen substantially each year and is now the largest in […]
The first letter is from the CFE (or Campaign for Fiscal Equity) to DOE’s general counsel, asking the DOE to schedule hearings in each county for the 2012-2013 C4E plan, as per law. The second letter is from the CFE to SED Commissioner King. It requests that he correct the timeline for 2013-2014 and all subsequent […]
Below you will find a sample resolution, created February 2013, on the need to protect student privacy. The resolution is intended for CECs, Community Boards, Presidents Councils and PTAs. For more information on this subject. Look at our fact sheet (here). To download the sample resolution as a document, click (here). Or to view the […]
Here is a sample resolution on the need to reduce NYC class sizes and comply with the Contracts for Excellence law, created February 2013, for public use. Download the file as a document by clicking (here). Or view it below. [scribd id=126624598 key=key-1uad43maftssgnx2sexs mode=scroll]
On February 7th, Diane Ravitch posted our Complete Guide to the Corporate Reform Movement on her blog. Check out our corporate reform document, and see what we wrote: Many parents, teachers and concerned citizens are confused by the superabundance of well-funded advocacy organizations, consulting companies, and research groups promoting the corporate education reform agenda. These […]
Leonie Haimson sat down with Partnership for Student Advocacy’s Mary Conway-Speigel to talk about NY State Education Department’s current plan to turn over private, personally-identifiable student data with a Gates-funded corporation who will then make this data available to commercial vendors. Check our fact sheet here for more information.
On February 7, 2013, the Massachusetts ACLU, Campaign for Commercial-Free Childhood, Citizens for Public Schools and Massachusetts PTA wrote a joint letter to the Massachusetts Board of Elementary and Secondary Education about the release of students’ personally identifiable information to the Gates-sponsored inBloom, Inc.. New York and Massachusetts are two of nine states that have agreed to share confidential student […]
On January 8, 2013, Chair of the Committee on Education, Concilmember Robert Jackson, wrote a letter to State Education Commissioner King on behalf of NYC students. In his letter, Councilmember Jackson urges the Commissioner to, “hold New York City accountable to the public process demanded by the [Contracts for Excellence] law, and if the City […]
On January 11, 2013, the CFE Project wrote to Chancellor Walcott, alerting him to the DOE’s failure to comply with the Contracts for Excellence law: “To date, the DOE has not posted a proposed 2012-13 C4E plan for public comment, nor has the DOE held any public hearings on a proposed plan in accordance with […]
The Campaign for Fiscal Equity (CFE) announced in a letter last week that it was considering re-opening the lawsuit against New York State, on the basis that the funding promised NYC and other high-needs school districts has never been fulfilled. Below is a presentation on CFE delivered by Leonie Haimson at Princeton, for a course on […]
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 .
