Districts are being mandated by New York State Education Department (NYSED) to sign up with one of three companies by Sept. 27 that will produce data dashboards, to be populated from the inBloom cloud. Furthermore, the State Education Dept. is encouraging districts to provide even more confidential student data to inBloom and to the vendors […]
Please take our two minute survey to tell Class Size Matters about your schools’ class sizes this year. Access our survey here (http://goo.gl/UuZKI).
Frequently asked questions about Class Size: What New York City parents need to know. Downloadable Version: F.A.Q.s on Class Size (Revised April 2013) [scribd id=134526498 key=key-1z5xcijqhyfwzsvlkhdf mode=scroll]
According to reports, DoE has pushing Community Education Councils at the end of the year and the end of the Bloomberg reign to dezone the following districts: Districts 4, 5, 6 (twice), 7 (unzoned into two large preference zones this year), 12, 13, 14, 16, 17 and 23 (unzoned for MS this year). What does […]
Rally together on June 8 at noon! Download here. Or see below: [scribd id=141905046 key=key-13nvh0ki0xan2zvkg41s mode=scroll]
In English Nosotros, los miembros del Equipo de Liderazgo Escolar (School Leadership Team o SLT) de la Brooklyn New School BNS (PS146) , exigimos una moratoria a los nuevos exámenes estandarizados en el estado de Nueva York. Como padres y maestros, no nos oponemos a los exámenes estandarizados, cuando se utiliza correctamente. Cómo se practican […]
Every year since 2007, NYC parents have voted smaller classes their #1 priority, according to the Department of Education’s own annual surveys. In addition, the state passed a law in 2007 called the Contracts for Excellence (C4E), requiring that NYC reduce class size in all grades, in return for receiving additional state aid. Yet class […]
New York is one of five states that have agreed to share confidential NYC student and teacher data in Phase I with the “Shared Learning Collaborative” or SLC, a project of the Gates Foundation. The other states and districts in Phase I include North Carolina (Guilford Co.), Colorado (Jefferson Co.), Illinois (Unit 5 Normal and […]
The following 2004 letter written by Kathleen Grimm, then- DOE Deputy Chancellor, Finance and Administration, was a response to State Senator Eric Schneiderman’s inquiry into class sizes. Full download available here: DOE letter Schneiderman 12.8.2004 [scribd id=106563299 key=key-23figfx93rwba6319qbf mode=scroll]
The following document is from the 2005 press release of City Council Speaker Gifford Miller, Council Member Robert Jackson (plaintiff in CFE lawsuit), New York State Senate Deputy Minority Leader Eric T. Schneiderman and education advocates, held at City Hall. The press release calls on State Comptroller Alan Hevesi to audit Department of Education (DOE) […]
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 .
