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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Send a message to the Council today, for more funding for class size reduction!
June 6, 2024 School budgets allocations dropped today for next year, and serious problems remain. The DOE has allocated only $137M to hire more teachers for class size reduction, which is inadequate and spread too thin over too many schools. Nearly 500 schools are receiving less than $100,000, which is not enough to hire even […]
Talking points and instructions on speaking at borough class size hearings, starting this Wed. May 22
The just-released DOE class size “plan” for next year fails on every account. Class size borough hearings begin this Wednesday May 22nd. Make your voices heard! Bronx – Wednesday, May 22, 2024 (6:00pm) Manhattan – Thursday, May 23, 2024 (6:00pm) Staten Island – Tuesday, May 28, 2024 (6:00pm) Queens – Wednesday, May 29, 2024 (6:00pm) […]
Sign up now for our Parent Action Conference on May 11th!
You’re invited! Class Size Matters will hold our annual Parent Action Conference co-sponsored with NYC Kids Pac on May 11th, starting at 10:30 AM. Keynote speakers will focus on Mayoral control: the way forward with New York State Senator John Liu, Chair of the NYC Education Committee, and CUNY Law Professor Natalia Gomez Velez, who […]
Resolution for CECs & community groups on need for DOE to lower class size in compliance with the law
Below is a draft resolution for CECs and other community and advocacy organizations to consider passing, urging the DOE to adopt the recommendations in the report of the Class Size Working Group and begin to lower class size in compliance with the class size law. So far, resolutions urging the DOE to implement plans to […]
Join us Monday Nov. 27 to hear about the Class Size Law and what DOE should be doing to comply!
Please join us Monday at 7 PM for a meeting on the new class size, what DOE should be doing but it not, and how parents, teachers & others can help ensure they comply with the law. Co-sponsored by Class Size Matters, AQE & NYC Kids PAC. Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_35N9V6UDSyudBBXFNxXo0A#/registration
Make your voice heard on class size and ed tech!
Sept. 17, 2023 A quick but important update on important meetings happening this week and next: 1. Save these dates on class size! The Class Size Working Group that was appointed by the Chancellor to help develop a plan to lower class size citywide in accordance with the new state law is holding public engagement […]
Make your voice heard: how should the DOE be reducing class size?
The Class Size Working Group appointed by the Chancellor to help develop a plan to lower class size citywide in accordance with the new state law is holding public engagement sessions online and in person starting next week to present their preliminary proposals and get feedback: Tuesday, September 26th – 5- 7:30pm online […]
Our 2023 Parent Action Conference was a great success!
On Saturday, June 10th we had a great Parent Action Conference, co-sponsored with NYC Kids Pac. Many committed parent and teacher activists met via Zoom. We began the conference with powerful remarks from Council Member Alexa Avilés about her decision as a PTA co-president to run for office, and what the biggest challenges she faced […]
Send a message now to City Council: please don’t cut school budgets or the capital plan!
June 14, 2023 Our annual Parent Action Conference on Saturday was a great success, and we will have follow-up information soon with links to some of the presentations and videos. One of the issues we covered was the looming budget cuts to schools. Though the DOE says that schools’ initial school funding for next year […]
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 .
