For immediate release: July 22, 2022 Contact: Leonie Haimson: 917-435-9329; [email protected]; Laura D. Barbieri 914-819-3387; [email protected] Judge orders a temporary restraining order against budget cuts to schools In the lawsuit against the city’s attempt to radically cut budgets filed on July 18, Judge Lyle Frank of the NY State Supreme Court granted the […]
June 30, 2022 Dear all — Thank you for signing our petition urging the Gov. to sign the class size bill. We delivered the petition to her via her education secretary yesterday. However, it looks like there is a deal going down tonight for her to sign the Mayoral control bill with some minor changes […]
July 5, 2022 Dear folks — Despite our press conference last Wednesday with legislators and advocates, and more than 7,000 of her constituents urging the Governor to sign the class size bill, she has not yet done so. Instead she signed the mayoral control bill with some few minor tweaks, but ignored the intent of […]
July 15, 2022 Dear All– 1. Please join parents, teachers and members of the City Council on the steps of Tweed, 52 Chambers St., at 10 AM this Monday July 18, to protest the Mayor’s savage budget cuts to schools. If you think you can make it, please RSVP here. The Mayor is still stubbornly […]
July 19, 2022 Dear all: Yesterday, a lawsuit was filed on behalf of four parents and teachers in the NY Supreme Court by the pro bono law firm, Advocates for Justice, to halt the Mayor’s damaging budget cuts to schools and require that the City Council have another opportunity to vote on the education budget. […]
Update: the lawsuit was covered by the Daily News, AM New York, Chalkbeat, and CBS radio so far. The legal papers are posted here. For immediate release: July 18, 2022 Contact: Leonie Haimson: 917-435-9329; [email protected]; Laura D. Barbieri 914-819-3387; [email protected] NYC Parents And Teachers File Lawsuit Today Against Mayor Adams’ Savage Cuts To School […]
On July 18, 2022, four parents and teachers filed a lawsuit in the Manhattan Supreme Court on July 18, 2022 to block the Mayor’s budget cuts to schools in the case Tucker et. al. vs the City of NY. Subsequently, the New York City Civil Liberties Union filed an amicus brief in the case. The […]
July 15, 2022 Yesterday, July 14, we again analyzed the total Galaxy school budgets via an automated mechanism, scraping the data posted on the DOE Galaxy look-up tool here . Our new spreadsheet is here. According to our analysis, the overall school cuts for FY 23 now total about $1.42 billion compared to FY 22; […]
For immediate release: July 1, 2022 Contact: Marina Marcou-O’Malley: 518-894-6834, [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Leonie Haimson: 917-435-9329; [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Anger and distress at Gov. Hochul refusing to sign class size bill along with mayoral control bill Parents, education advocates and elected officials reacted with dismay and alarm at the fact that Gov. Hochul signed the mayoral control bill last […]
Below is our testimony from the July 24, 2022 joint hearings of the City Council Education and Oversight/Investigation Committees. If you’d like to hear our account of the hearings, and the absurd claims made by the Deputy Chancellor, it’s posted 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.
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 .
