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
Full comments posted here. Summary below. COMMENTS BY CLASS SIZE MATTERS ON A-190 PROPOSED REGULATIONS IN REGARDS SIGNIFICANT CHANGES IN SCHOOL UTILIZATION AND PROCEDURES FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF SCHOOL BUILDINGS HOUSING MORE THAN ONE SCHOOL October 4, 2010 SUMMARY: Unfortunately, the proposed Educational Impact Statements, building plan template and Instructional footprint are inadequate to meet […]
The only information out of the unrealiable 2009-2010 school progress reports that I would trust is the list of schools that got an “F” for environment, based predominantly on poor ratings from the parent and teacher learnng environment surveys, and in the case of middle and high schools, student surveys as well. Here is a […]
Comments to the SUNY board on the application of Success Academy Charter School to be co-located in District 3 October 15, 2010 https://classsizematters.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/CSM_Comments_re_the_application_of_Success_Academy_to_D3.pdf
October 15, 2010 Class Size Matters comments_to SUNY board re_the_application_of_Bronx_Success_Academy charter school in_D7.pdf
Comments on the proposed KED charter school in District 2 https://classsizematters.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/comments_on_KED_charter_school.pdf
October 17, 2010 Presentation to Central Brooklyn Independent Democrats on NYC’s high stakes accountability system and the “test score scam” (pdf) https://classsizematters.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/CBID_talk_10.10.pdf
High school progress reports; more unreliable and unfair measures November 3, 2010 Today the high school progress reports were released for 2009-2010; here is an excel spreadsheet. Yet experts continue to have grave reservations as to their reliability, with DOE placing far too much emphasis on test scores and especially the “progress” component, which means […]
Class Size Matters “Get Advocacy” Parent Toolkit For Parents, Teachers, and Communities (pdf) https://classsizematters.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/CSM-Advocacy-Toolkit-2011.pdf
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