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UPDATE: 4/7/21 Thankfully, the completed state budget does NOT have any increase in the number of charter schools allowed under the cap; nor does it revive the “zombie” charters! April 5, 2021 I just heard from a connected source that raising the charter cap and/or reviving the “zombie” charters is still on the table in […]
April 5, 2021 in Reports & Memos, Updates by leoniehaimson
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The NY Daily News and WCBS-TV covered the lack of matching funds issue. For immediate release: March 25, 2021 Media contact: Leonie Haimson, leoniehaimson@gmail.com, 917-435-9329 New report finds DOE overspent by many millions on rental subsidies for charter schools and owed millions to co-located public schools for facility upgrades Analysis by Class Size Matters reveals […]
March 25, 2021 in Press Releases, Reports & Memos, Uncategorized, Updates by leoniehaimson
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By law, the DOE is supposed to report on class sizes twice a year, the first time on Nov. 15 and then again on Feb. 15. We had heard from parents of egregiously large classes sizes this fall for many students engaged in remote learning of sixty students or even more, either full-time or part-time. […]
March 4, 2021 in Reports & Memos, Uncategorized, Updates by Michael Horwitz
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Oct. 28, 2020 Last week, Council Education Chair Mark Treyger wrote a letter to Chancellor Carranza urging him to report on school-specific and citywide class size averages as the law requires on Nov. 15, and also to disagreggate the data by type of instruction used: either in-person learning, remote classes for blended learning students, and […]
October 28, 2020 in Reports & Memos, Uncategorized, Updates by leoniehaimson
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I sent the below memo to the members of the Panel for Educational Policy last week; questions about their busing contracts, DOE’s lack of compliance with the state student privacy law by failing to post their district data privacy policy and contracts with vendors that have access to personal student data, and problems related to […]
October 19, 2020 in Privacy, Reports & Memos, Reports, Testimonies, Etc., Testimonies & Comments, Updates by Michael Horwitz
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The following PowerPoint is a summary of concerns and ideas offered by parents, teachers and others who contributed to our online survey and our June 20 conference on the reopening of schools.
July 7, 2020 in Reports & Memos, Reports, Testimonies, Etc., Updates by Peter LaChance
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The need to reduce class size next fall to improve health and safety and strengthen academic and emotional support and how this could be achieved through budget savings Download the PDF version here. Shorter version in the Gotham Gazette, “To Reopen Schools, The Mayor Needs Smaller Classes — Here’s $570 Million in Potential Department of […]
May 14, 2020 in Reports & Memos, Uncategorized, Updates by Peter LaChance
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Update 3/1/2021: The SCA has now posted a document that attests to to show how many seats were lost in 2019-2020, but has provided no other information listed below that was required by law. 2/12/2020 Two bills were passed last year by the City Council, with the goal of helping to alleviate school overcrowding: Local […]
February 12, 2020 in Reports & Memos, Uncategorized, Updates by Peter LaChance
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The Board of Regents and the New York State Education Department are re-examining the use of Regents “exit exams” as a requirement for high school graduation, and are holding a series of regional public sessions to gather input from parents, teachers and other stakeholders before making any changes to the current policy. These meetings will […]
February 5, 2020 in Reports & Memos, Uncategorized, Updates by leoniehaimson
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You can download a PDF version here. What are we proposing? Class Size Matters is urging that the Mayor and NYC Council allocate $100 million to be allocated towards hiring teachers to lower class size, starting first in the early grades and in struggling schools. That amount could pay for the salaries of about 1,000 new […]
January 16, 2020 in Reports & Memos, Updates by Peter LaChance
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