Why the City Council should vote no on the five-year proposed capital plan for schools
June 29, 2024 The vote is tomorrow at 2 PM. Feel free to forward to your Council Members. You can find their contact info here. Full pdf below and here.
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The city’s proposed cuts to teachers & space in the context of the need to lower class size
May 13, 2024 Below and here is the presentation we gave on Saturday at our Annual Parent Action Conference on the city’s proposed cuts to schools and teachers and lack of class size reduction plan
Our class size presentation at Caucus Weekend; the Road Map towards Compliance with the State Law
Here is the brief presentation I gave as part of a Workshop at the Black and Hispanic Caucus weekend in Albany on Feb. 17, entitled “Every Student Deserves Small Classes: The Road Map towards Compliance with the State Law.” Please share with others if you can!
Our 20 year experiment with Mayoral control: comments to the State and to NYC Bar Association
Feb. 6, 2024 Below is the presentation I gave last night to the Education Committee of the NYC Bar Association, on the history and the myths surrounding Mayoral control. Below that is my longer testimony on Mayoral control to the State Education Department, that goes into more depth on these issues. NYSED is supposed to […]
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 […]
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]
Presentation to the Capital Plan committee of the Class Size Working Group
Here is the presentation I gave on July 6, 2023, as a pdf and as a Powerpoint. Also embedded below:
The Mayor claims his budget contains no cuts to schools; but that is not true.
Our presentation at our annual Parent Action Conference on June 10, 2023. Here we explain why the fact that schools are not seeing initial budget cuts compared to last year doesn’t mean they are not facing serious cuts that may lead to the further loss of teachers and critical programs.
The new class size law: is DOE prepared to comply?
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.
Updated charter school briefing for NYC Bar Association
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!
Sign up for our Student Privacy forum
On Oct. 23 at 7 PM, learn how the DOE is sharing student data with unscrupulous ed tech vendors, social media companies, charter schools & more and how you can help protect your children’s privacy. Register via Zoom today!
Take our 5-minute class size survey!
Talk out of School: WBAI Sunday at 7 PM EST or as a podcast
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.
Skinny award dinner honoring Rep. Jamaal Bowman!
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 .
