For immediate release: September 21, 2017 For more information contact: Leonie Haimson, [email protected]; 917-435-9329 Today, Class Size Matters released a new report entitled Seats Gained and Lost in NYC Schools: The Untold Story. For the first time, this study reveals that more than 50,000 NYC public school seats were eliminated during the decade of […]
August 16, 2017 1. Each March, thousands of entrepreneurs and advocates for online learning funded by the edtech industry descend upon Austin’s SXSW Edu conference to promote their products and publicize their point of view. For example, it’s where Bill Gates chose to launch inBloom Inc. in 2013. Please help us fight […]
Sept. 18. 2017 Welcome back to a new school year! 1. Please take our five-minute class size survey to let us know how large your child’s class size is this year; teachers, your input is welcome too! In NYC, the administration has until Sept. 20 to get below the union class […]
June 16, 2017 Only a few days are left in the NY legislative term, and the NY State Senate leadership and now Gov. Cuomo are pushing a deal to exchange the extension of Mayoral control in NYC for more charter schools and/or a tuition tax credit for religious and private schools statewide. One of the […]
June 13, 2017 1. The NY State Ed Department has been holding hearings on its ESSA plan. You can check out my account of the Brooklyn hearings; my testimony is here. You can send your own comments through through June 16 on what you think the State should measure to assess the quality of schools […]
May 25, 2017 It’s that time of year again! Our 2017 Annual Skinny Award Dinner will be held Tuesday, June 20 at 6:30 PM at Il Bastardo/Bocca di Bacco, 191 Seventh Ave., in Manhattan. We will be serving a three course dinner with wine, and will honor those individuals who gave us the real “skinny” […]
July 20, 2017 Some important news to report. First the bad news: 1- The House Appropriations Committee voted yesterday to zero out and totally eliminate more than $2 billion in Title II funds, which are used in many schools to reduce class size, keep teachers on staff, and/or improve teacher quality. If the full House […]
News articles about our legal complaint were reported by in WNYC Schoolbook: Parents Push NY to Enforce Smaller Class Size Law, NY1: Here’s how parents aim to reduce class sizes of city public schools, and the Queens Chronicle: Obey the Law, School Parents Tell City DOE For Immediate Release: July 6, 2017 Contact: […]
Here is data on the increase in class size since 2007, including class sizes of 30 or more, and the long term trend since 1998.
The NYC Department of Education has refused to complied with the Contracts for Excellence (C4E) law requiring that they create smaller classes in all grades in our public schools. Instead class sizes are considerably larger now than when the law was passed in 2007. As of the fall 2016, classes in Kindergarten through third grade […]
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 .
