Oct. 17, 2024 Save the date! A week from now, Wed. October 23, at 7 PM we will be holding a webinar on the threat to student privacy from breaches and the DOE practice of sharing student data with ed tech companies, social media, charter schools, and other unscrupulous third parties. All this is likely […]
Oct. 29, 2024 1. Good news! Because of the concerns we expressed in the letter sent last week to DOE, pointing out the many serious flaws in their proposed revisions to Chancellor’s regulation A-820 on student privacy, and the more than 3,000 emails sent by many of you, the DOE has agreed to put off […]
Nov. 2024 – updated Jan. 2025 We have drafted the following resolution for CECs, Community Boards and other groups to consider, urging the DOE to create and implement a actual multi-year class size plan, that would enable schools to cap enrollment at lower levels if that will be necessary for them to cap class sizes […]
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 […]
Sept. 17, 2024 1.Last week, the organization I co-chair, Parent Coalition for Student Privacy sent a letter to the Mayor, the Chancellor and Health Commissioner expressing our concerns about the city’s contract with and promotion of Teenspace, an online mental health service which collects highly sensitive data from students. According to its privacy policy, the […]
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 […]
September 9, 2024 Below and here is our recent testimony on Foundation Aid. We point out how over the past 24 years, the DOE has repeatedly supplanted of state aid meant for class size reduction , and caution that creating any dedicated funding stream for that purpose for NYC as part of the Foundation Aid […]
July 8, 2024 Just a quick message to let you know that in response to our legal challenge to their previous guidance, DOE sent revised instructions to principals last week, making it crystal clear that no students can be assigned to an online class without the prior written consent of their parents. They reversed their […]
August 7, 2024 An updated version of the NYC School Capital plan for FY 2025-2029 was posted by the School Construction Authority on July 30, 2024. It contains an additional $2 billion for new capacity, as required by the state budget, and an additional 10,382 school seats, for a total of 33,417 seats. However, the […]
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 .
