Planning for class size reduction: Presentation for Presidents Council in D20
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.
Presentations
Planning for class size reduction: presentation to Public Advocate office
March 9, 2023 See here or below, presentation provided the Public Advocate’s office.
Presentation to Speaker Adams on class size/overcrowding
Here is a presentation on the class size/school overcrowding issue that we used to brief Speaker Adams’ staff earlier this month; it describes some of the challenges in terms of budgeting, space and enrollment that must be addressed if DOE is to achieve the smaller class size caps in the new state law.
Why the charter cap should NOT be raised & what should CECs and parents do about this.
Updated March 5, 2023 You can send an email to your Legislators here, in opposition to Gov. Hochul’s proposal to lift the NYC charter cap and that instead the charter law needs to be strengthened, to eliminate NYC’s onerous and unfair obligation to provide all new and expanding charter schools with space, remove loopholes which […]
Meeting the Class size caps: data for District 24 and District 30
Nov. 18, 2022 Below a presentation I provided to CM Krishnan on the challenges faced by D 24 and D30 in meeting the class size caps in the new class size law
Class Size/ Overcrowding Presentation for NYC Council Education chair Rita Joseph
Here is the presentation I gave Oct. 31, 2022 for CM Rita Joseph, on the new class size law and need for enhanced Council oversight and a Task Force to consider changes in DOE policies and practices to make sure that the class size benchmakrs in the new state law can be met by DOE. […]
Presentation for the Real Deal on School Budgets forum
Below is the presentation I gave at the Real Deal on School Budgets forum, sponsored by Senator Robert Jackson on Oct. 25, 2022, with a special focus class size, school overcrowding and cuts to School district 6. If you’d like a similar briefing for your CEC or community group, with a focus on your schools, […]
How the Mayor’s proposed budget cuts to schools will drive class sizes up rather than down
Our 2022 Parent Action conference was great; about 80 people participated. Here is the presentation I gave on the new class size bill and yet how proposed budget cuts to schools will likely cause class sizes to rise sharply rather than decrease. Sure enough, last night school budgets were released, and they were brutal. Some […]
Presentation on the proposed budget cuts to schools & their likely impact on class size
May 23, 2022 Below is the presentation I gave to the ECC on the proposed budget cuts to schools and the capital plan and their likely impact on class size and school overcrowding. Because of the sharp decline in enrollment of the past two years, the DOE has a real opportunity to sustain the smaller […]
DOE proposing to cut $1.1B & 11,000 new seats from the adopted capital plan
The presentation is also posted here. The DOE is proposing to cut $1.1 billion from new school construction in the capital plan, and to cut more than 6,000 seats from Queens and nearly that many from the Bronx. The Panel for Educational Policy will vote on this plan on Wednesday night, April 27 at 6 […]
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How you can help NYC kids get smaller classes — & why this matters!
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NYC Public School Parents Blog
- Council Education chair Rita Joseph and her colleagues urge Legislature -- don't raise the charter cap! March 24, 2023
- My twitter spat with Core DeAngelis and Talk out of School podcast on the well-funded assault on our public schools February 26, 2023
- Success Academy's aggressive expansion efforts despite falling enrollment, their questionable "waiting lists" and over $13 million per year spent on marketing February 25, 2023
- PS 145 begs for more space, with overcrowding worsened by co-location and now influx of refugee students February 16, 2023
- What the Chancellor said on class size and raising the charter cap; & Mayor proposes to cut school budgets next year once again February 16, 2023
