How to make the city’s new five-year capital plan for school construction…. A Better Capital Plan October 2008 A Report from: Class Size Matters/The Campaign for a Better Capital Plan/The Manhattan Task Force on School Overcrowding The Center for Arts Education/The United Federation of Teachers https://3zn338.a2cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/A_Better_Capital_Plan_final_final.pdf
How Crowded Are Our Schools? New Results from a Survey of NYC Public School Principals Prof. Emily Horowitz (St. Francis College) & Leonie Haimson (Class Size Matters) October 3, 2008 Click here to download the report [PDF]
High School Discharges Revisited: TRENDS IN NEW YORK CITY’S DISCHARGE RATES, 2000-2007 By Jennifer L. Jennings and Leonie Haimson, April 30, 2009 https://3zn338.a2cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/High_School_Discharge_Report_FINAL.pdf Here is a NY Times article about our findings: Number of Students Leaving School Early Continues to Increase, Study Says. This report led to a 2011 audit from the NY State Comptroller’s […]
Testimony of Leonie Haimson, Executive Director of Class Size Matters Hearing on Int. 354 requiring reporting of student discharge rates and Int. 364 for reporting of student outcomes at closing schools Before the NYC Council Education Committee January 25, 2011
See this DOE press release on their “new” revised amended five year capital plan, which they try to spin as a major restoration, but is really a major cut. In the Feb. 2010 plan (which was adopted in June), the DOE said they would fund 30,000 new seats at $4 billion, which we knew […]
Testimony of Leonie Haimson, Executive Director of Class Size Matters NYC Council Hearings on Preliminary Budget Hearing – Education – Expense April 8, 2011 Hello, my name is Leonie Haimson, Executive Director of Class Size Matters. Thank you for allowing me to testify today. Since yesterday, there has been tremendous instability and uncertainty in the […]
According to Education Week, 32 states now have class size reduction programs or limit class size by law. In addition, Minneapolis has a city-funded class size reduction program for all grades through high school. The following is a summary of several of these programs and their results. Texas Texas was one of the first states […]
My debate with Deputy Chancellor Shael Suransky. More on this debate, which the DOE asked NY Law school to bar reporters from videotaping, is here, here, and here. Power points part 1 and part 2. September 15, 2010.
September 22, 2010 Revelations concerning SED’s secret backdoor deal with DOE on class size See today’s Juan Gonzalez column here, about the backdoor deal made nearly seven months ago between State Education Commissioner Steiner and Joel Klein, to allow the city to nullify its legal and moral commitments to reduce class size, and to let […]
September 27, 2010. testimony_on_testing_9._27.10_final.doc
You’re invited! Class Size Matters will hold our annual Skinny Awards on Wednesday, June 12th. You can sign up for the event here.
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 .
