Nov. 29, 2019 Dear friends — I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving with family and friends. For your gift-giving this holiday season, I wanted to let you know that if you plan to shop via Amazon, please consider doing it via Amazon Smile, which will donate .5% of the purchase price to Class Size […]
For immediate release: October 21, 2019 Contact: Leonie Haimson, 917-435-9329, leoniehaimson@gmail.com New report reveals over $100 million spent last year by NYC on charter facilities Includes payments to help charter schools rent space in buildings owned by their CMOs or related parties Also: 175 public schools co-located with charters lack $22M in matching funds […]
Testimony before the NYC Council Education Committee PDF of the testimony is here. September 24, 2019 Thank you, Chair Treyger for holding these important hearings and for the opportunity to testify before you today. My name is Emily Carrazana, I work at Class Size Matters and I attended public elementary and middle schools in […]
Sept.6, 2019 Welcome back to a new school year! I hope you had a great summer. 1.I have exciting news to report: I will be co-hosting a new weekly radio show on WBAI, called Talk out of School, with Carol Burris, executive director of the Network for Public Education. Our first show will be aired […]
June 2, 2019 1. On May 23, the Education Law Center appealed our lawsuit to the Appellate Court to require DOE to lower class size in all grades, in compliance with its obligations under the Contracts for Excellence law. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of nine NYC parents, Class Size Matters and AQE. We […]
A presentation for CPAC regarding school overcrowding & the new five-year Capital Plan.
The presentation below describes issues regarding the new five year capital plan 2020-2024.Among the issues is that the plan is very backloaded in that 50,000 of 57,000 seats in the plan won’t be completed until 2024 or later. Additionally, there is no estimate for need for new seats – for the first time in a […]
On Tuesday June 11 at noon, more than one hundred parents, students, advocates, elected officials and union members gathered on the steps of City Hall to urge the NYC Department of Education and the Mayor to allocate specific funding in next year’s budget towards reducing class size. Below is a video of the rally. Thanks […]
Testimony before the Committee on Education and Jointly with the Committee on Civil and Human Rights PDF of the testimony is here. May 1, 2019 Thank you for the opportunity to testify before you today. My name is Leonie Haimson and I’m the executive director of Class Size Matters. I would like to testify in […]
Please join us for a virtual Class Size Briefing this Sunday June 28th, where we will speak about the changes to the class size law, point out flaws in the DOE's proposed plan for next year, and provide everyone with strategies for advocating for smaller classes for all NYC students!
Sign the petition asking for a moratorium on the use of AI until rigorous safeguards are established to protect student privacy, learning and the environment.
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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, Daniel Alicea and Kaliris Salas Ramirez interview guests and discuss issues affecting public schools in NYC, the state level and nationally. You can stream or subscribe to the podcast here at Simplecast; or at iTunes, Spotify or Google.
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.
