Here is our presentation from our Parent Action Conference on June 10, 2023; where we ask if the DOE is making preparations to comply with the new class size law. The answer is no. You can also read my new piece in Gotham Gazette on the same subject.
These budget priorities can be downloaded in English or in Spanish here. Class Size Matters/NYC Kids PAC/CPAC/AQE Budget Priorities for FY 2024 Updated May 31, 2023 The Mayor and City Council should prevent any further cuts to schools, and instead restore the budget cuts made to schools in this year’s budget. The DOE says […]
The data is the latest DOE has made available from last year’s 2021-2022 Enrollment, Capacity and Utilization Report 2021 – 2022 or the “Blue Book.” For a larger view that is easier to use with a few more features, check out the CSM github map here. By using the dropdown box on the upper right […]
May 24, 2023 Our testimony at today’s budget hearings is posted here and below. We are very concerned about the continued shrinking of the teaching staff and the huge proposed cuts to the capital plan, both of which will make the goals in the new class size law difficult if not impossible to achieve. We […]
May 23, 2023 Though the NYC Comptroller and others continue to use figures for school budget cuts this year that refer only to the reductions made to their Fair Student Funding allocations, for the last year or so we’ve been calculating the actual level of the much larger cuts to their entire budgets, called their […]
We gave the following updated charter school briefing to the Education Committee of the NYC Bar Association on April 3, 2023, showing the need for more accountability and oversight for the charter sector. Take a look!
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 […]
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.
Our education budget priorities for next year, FY 2024, along with Alliance for Quality Education, NYC Kids PAC and the Chancellor’s Parent Advisory Council are here and below . They are focused on the need for schools to have their budgets restored and the cuts made this year reversed, and for the capital plan for […]
March 9, 2023 See here or below, presentation provided the Public Advocate’s office.
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 .
