See our letter written with the Education Law Center to the DOE Chancellor about the need to hold prompt hearings to gain input from parents and others on how the C4E funding will be spent next year. This public input is legally required and is especially critical now, given that our schools are finally getting […]
The NY Times front-page article by Eliza Shapiro about the disappointing results at the Renewal schools is here. I have written and testified about the deeply flawed strategies used in these schools since at least 2015, advocating that instead, DOE should be reducing class sizes in these schools, as they have promised the NY State […]
The first letter is from the CFE (or Campaign for Fiscal Equity) to DOE’s general counsel, asking the DOE to schedule hearings in each county for the 2012-2013 C4E plan, as per law. The second letter is from the CFE to SED Commissioner King. It requests that he correct the timeline for 2013-2014 and all subsequent […]
According to Education Week, 32 states now have class size reduction programs or limit class size by law. In addition, Minneapolis has a city-funded class size reduction program for all grades through high school. The following is a summary of several of these programs and their results. Texas Texas was one of the first states […]
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 .
