December 31, 2016 1. It’s your last chance to give a tax-deductible donation to Class Size Matters in 2016. You can also check out what Diane Ravitch wrote about our efforts to improve schools and protect student privacy. If you would like to support our work going forward, please send a check to the address […]
February 21, 2017 A week from today, the City Council will hold hearings on the need to improve school planning and siting process. When: Tues. Feb. 28 starting at 10 AM Where: Council Chambers, City Hall What: City Council joint hearings of the Education and Finance committees on the school siting and planning process As […]
Cross-posted on NYSAPE’s website. Below is a memo that Class Size Matters and NY State Allies for Public Education sent to Commissioner Elia and the NY Board of Regents last week, on what may seem like an arcane and technical subject but is actually critical to ensure that opt-out students aren’t counted as failing in […]
Please consider donating to Class Size Matters on #GivingTuesday. We are continuing to push for smaller classes and less overcrowding in our public schools. NYC added nearly a billion dollars to the capital plan last spring to build more schools, in part because of our advocacy. Yet the plan is still underfunded, the process of […]
November 22, 2016 Dear friend, 1.This year’s average school level and citywide class size data was released last week, showing a slight decrease in average class sizes in most grades. However, the decrease was so small that it would take 11 years before city schools reached acceptable Contract for Excellence class sizes in grades K-3, […]
On October 25, 2016 the Appellate Court ruled on our lawsuit to keep School Leadership Team meetings open, which the DOE had closed to the public starting in 2013. Here is our press release, and here are articles about the decision in the Daily News, the Village Voice and Chalkbeat. Here is a blog post […]
October 27, 2016 Dear friend: Just a quick update to let you know that on Tuesday, the Appellate Court ruled on our lawsuit against the DOE, and in a strongly worded, unanimous decision agreed with the Supreme Court that School Leadership Team meetings must be open to the public. Here is the Court’s decision; […]
October 5, 2016 Please join us at our annual Parent Action Conference, co-sponsored by CEC2 and NYC Kids PAC. The theme of the conference this year is “Putting Power Back in Parents’ Hands” and it will be held Saturday, Nov. 5 at the Spruce St. School, 12 Spruce St. in lower Manhattan near City Hall. […]
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.
