March 26, 2025 Last Thursday morning, I spoke at the School Construction Authority board meeting, explaining how they have failed to fulfill their legal and ethical obligations to provide schools with the space necessary to comply with the class size law and the requirements of the Public Authorities Law. Here and below is the testimony […]
In December 2024, DOE quietly posted on its website a Table entitled Class Size Space Analysis 2024-2025 , consisting of a list of all non-D75 schools, showing which schools in their estimation do or do not have the space currently to lower class sizes to the levels required by law. According to this list, 495 […]
December 18, 2024 A press release about our letter is posted here. The letter is posted here and below. “
December 12, 2024 The class size law requires that the DOE must provide in its annual Implementation Report “a detailed description of how contract for excellence funds contributed to achieving class size reduction in each school that received such funding including specific information on the number of classes in each school that existed prior to […]
Oct. 21, 2024 Check out the letter here and below, sent today on behalf of Class Size Matters and the Parent Coalition for Student Privacy to the DOE’s chief privacy officer Dennis Doyle, copied to the Chancellor and the members of the Panel for Educational Policy, about the unacceptable way the DOE now proposes to […]
October 17, 2024 See our letter to Commissioner Rosa here and below, that provides yet more evidence that DOE has no actual plan to lower class size as the state law requires. It points out how the number of students in overcrowded schools has only increased since the class size law was passed, and how […]
This FAQ also available as a pdf here. Updated Sept. 13, 2024 On June 2, 2022, the NY State Legislature passed a bill to by a vote of 59-4 in the Senate and 147-2 in the Assembly, requiring that NYC schools implement a five-year class size reduction plan beginning in the fall of 2022. On […]
As of 12/1/24 Class Size Law, approved by Legislature in June 2023 and signed into law by Governor in Sept. 2023 CSM FAQ on law & its implementation, updated for the 2024-2025 school year CSM Myths and Facts on class size law DOE class size data by city, district and school, updated three times a […]
Update: After receiving three extensions, the city finally replied to our Commissioner’s Appeal on Aug. 12, 2024; we responded to their reply on September 9, 2024. And on September 13, Advocates for Justice wrote a terrific letter of support, saying a new IEP meeting should be required before any school enrolls students in an online […]
Class Size Hearing on Thursday 2/29/24 at 1 PM; press conference at 12 noon in front of City Hall; please come! To testify remotely or in person sign up here: https://council.nyc.gov/testify/ The best testimony is to speak from your own experience as a parent about how your child would benefit from smaller classes; but here […]
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.
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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 .
