March 9, 2016 Dear Friend, Yesterday the City Council Education Committee held hearings on the still underfunded DOE capital plan for school construction and repair. Check out our blog here for our testimony and DOE responses to Council Members’ probing questions; here is the NY 1 story. Thanks especially to the many parent and community leaders who […]
Link to Testimony on the NYC Planning Commission.
Presentations on Class Size, C4E, and/or Overcrowding and the Capital Plan. For district data, please click on yours below to view data. If you would like to request more information, have any questions or concerns, or would like us to present at your Community Education Council or community/parent group, please email us at info@classsizematters.org You […]
Watch Leonie Haimson at 1:22:49 ask Mayor de Blasio the following: “As you know, smaller classes are parents #1 priority on the DOE’s own surveys. During your campaign you promised to reduce class size to much lower levels and if necessary raise funds to do so, and to expand the school capital plan to […]
Class Size Matters co-sponsored the Parent Action Conference 2015, which took place November 7, 2015 at PS 133. The following are some power points and materials from the conference, organized by sessions. Plenary Panel Discussion: Alleviating Overcrowding and School Capital Planning Presented by The Honorable Brad Lander, NYC Council; Leonie Haimson, […]
Updated flyers for the Parent Action Conference, November 7, 2015
Received by Class Size Matters on 10/16/2015 City’s Appeal Court Ruling
Other resources Colorado PARCC Governing MOU Colorado Pearson Contract PARCC Privacy & Security Policy Oregon SBAC MOU Oregon AIR Contract SBAC Privacy & Security Policy Guidance for Schools Issued on How to Keep Parents Better Informed on the Data They Collect on Students US Department of Education, July 2014 Data and the Cloud: A Legal and Policy Guide […]
May 2, 2014 Please distribute to all parents! Parents and elected officials are holding a press conference Tuesday May 6 at Tweed to speak out against the new state law that gives any new and/or expanding charter free space either in our public school buildings or in private space paid for by the city .Meanwhile, many […]
The House version of the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act, also known as NCLB, will likely be voted on this week. The Senate version is currently being negotiated in committee. So this is the time to let your elected representatives in Congress know what you want the final law to say. Please send […]
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.
