Press release here. Articles in Chalkbeat and Brooklyn Reader. June 24, 2024 This afternoon, we sent this petition to the Mayor and Chancellor, with copies to UFT and CSA, about the profound inadequacies in their draft class size “plan.” It was signed by about 570 NYC parents, educators, school staff, advocates and community leaders. If […]
May 20, 2024 Dear all — 1. Borough hearings on the DOE’s draft class size plan for next year begin this week this Wednesday, May 22 via Zoom. Please 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) […]
May 10, 2024 Dear all — Just alerting you in case you’ve been too busy– this is your last chance to sign up for our annual Parent Action Conference, co-sponsored by NYC Kids PAC, that will be held tomorrow Saturday May 11 starting at 10:30 AM with two great keynote speakers, discussing Mayoral control: where […]
A Commissioner’s Appeal was filed June 12, 2024 on behalf of Class Size Matters and four parent plaintiffs vs DOE guidance dated May 13, 2024 that advised schools that they could place students in online classes and keep them there until their parents complained, which violates the NY State Education regulations issued April 28, 2024 […]
Our one-page demands for the city budget, co-signed by AQE, are posted here and below – to prevent school budget cuts and larger classes next year and the years to come.
May 15, 2024 Here and below is the Class Size Matters testimony on the Mayor’s Executive Budget and planned cuts to schools.
May 13, 2024 Below and here is the presentation we gave on Saturday at our Annual Parent Action Conference on the city’s proposed cuts to schools and teachers and lack of class size reduction plan
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 […]
Check out our critique and comments on DOE’s talking points here and below.
Here and below.
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 .
