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Class Size Matters & AQE urge State Education Department to require DOE submit a class size corrective action plan

Yesterday, Class Size Matters and AQE sent a letter to the State Education Commissioner, urging them to demand that DOE produce a class size corrective action plan, as it is clear that they have taken no steps to allow them to comply with the law.  Our press release is  below.  A Daily News article about […]

November 30, 2023 in Press Releases, Reports & Memos, Uncategorized, Updates by

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Our class size briefing: what DOE should be doing but isn’t to comply with the law

Nov. 28, 2023 Thanks to the 100+ parents and teachers who attended our Class Size briefing yesterday, co-sponsored by AQE and NYC Kids PAC.  The presentation as a pdf is here and below, in case you missed it or want to take a closer look. The video of the briefing, along with the Q and […]

November 28, 2023 in Presentations, Uncategorized, Updates by

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Radical cuts in funding and elimination of transparency in new Five-Year capital plan

November 8, 2023 The DoE/SCA released the new proposed Five-Year Capital Plan for FY 2025 – 2029 last week, the first to even mention the new class size law, which will require more schools to be built in overcrowded areas to create sufficient space for the smaller classes. Yet the number of new schools to […]

November 8, 2023 in overcrowding, Reports & Memos, Uncategorized, Updates by

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Comments to NYSED on how their proposed regs on the class size law omit the public process timeline in the law

Update Jan. 5, 2024: As we requested, the mandated timeline was put into the final regulations. November 8, 2023 Below and here  see comments from Class Size Matters, Alliance for Quality Education, and the Education Law Center on the proposed State regulations concerning the public process required for the development and submission of the new […]

November 8, 2023 in Testimonies & Comments, Uncategorized, Updates by

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CSM, Ed Law Center & AQE critique of DOE’s revised draft class size plan

Oct. 16, 2023 Below and here is the letter sent today to Commissioner Rosa and the Board of Regents from Class Size Matters, the Education Law Center and AQE, critiquing the DOE revised class size plan submitted to the State on Sept. 29 and asking the Commissioner and the Board of Regents to require a […]

October 16, 2023 in Testimonies & Comments, Uncategorized, Updates by

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Testimony on the dangers of DOE plans to expand online learning and ed tech

Sept. 20, 2023 See below; testimony here and below for today’s NYC Council hearings on the dangers to both privacy and the quality of education of DOE’s plans to expand the use of online learning. See also our presentation last night on the many ways DOE is putting student data privacy at risk and not […]

September 20, 2023 in Testimonies & Comments, Uncategorized, Updates by

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The many ways in which DOE is putting student privacy at risk

Sept. 19, 2023 Last night I gave this presentation to CEC 15, which passed a resolution on the need for DOE to better protect student privacy.  If your CEC or Presidents Council would like us to present to your group, or pass a similar resolution, let us know by emailing us at [email protected]

September 20, 2023 in Presentations, Privacy, Updates by

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Our comments on the DOE’s class size reduction plan & their inadequate response

August 28 update:  The Daily News published an article about our letter and the fact that DOE omitted its only promise for the coming school year from its revised class size plan, and no longer promises that schools that complied with the class size caps in the law last year would receive support and funding […]

August 22, 2023 in Testimonies & Comments, Uncategorized, Updates by

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Comments on class size paper by Matthew Chingos and Ariella Meltzer

August 3, 2023 Comments on paper by Matthew Chingos and Ariella Meltzer, “Class Size Reductions May Be Inequitably Distributed under a New Mandate in New York City” The primary claim made in this paper is that lowering class size would inequitably benefit white and Asian students rather than Black and Hispanic students, who tend to […]

August 14, 2023 in Testimonies & Comments, Updates by

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Comments on IBO brief on class size reduction costs

Articles about the IBO estimate were published in the Daily News and Gothamist. July 12, 2023 Comments on IBO brief on class size reduction costs: It is surprising that the IBO came out with a higher estimate of the staffing cost for the new class size reduction law than the city’s estimate– $1.6- $1.8 billion […]

July 12, 2023 in Testimonies & Comments, Updates by

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