Testimonies & Comments

CSM, Ed Law Center & AQE critique of DOE’s revised draft class size plan

Oct. 16, 2023 Below and here is the letter sent today to Commissioner Rosa and the Board of Regents from Class Size Matters, the Education Law Center and AQE, critiquing the DOE revised class size plan submitted to the State on Sept. 29 and asking the Commissioner and the Board of Regents to require a […]

October 16, 2023 in Testimonies & Comments, Uncategorized, Updates by

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Testimony on the dangers of DOE plans to expand online learning and ed tech

Sept. 20, 2023 See below; testimony here and below for today’s NYC Council hearings on the dangers to both privacy and the quality of education of DOE’s plans to expand the use of online learning. See also our presentation last night on the many ways DOE is putting student data privacy at risk and not […]

September 20, 2023 in Testimonies & Comments, Uncategorized, Updates by

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Make your voice heard: how should the DOE be reducing class size?

  The Class Size Working Group appointed by the Chancellor to help develop a plan to lower class size citywide in accordance with the new state law is holding public engagement sessions online and in person starting next week to present their preliminary proposals and get feedback:   Tuesday, September 26th – 5- 7:30pm online […]

September 18, 2023 in Take Action, Uncategorized, Updates by

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Welcome to a new school year & tell us how large your classes are!

Sept. 8, 2023 Dear all — Welcome to a new school year, and the first year of the phase-in of smaller classes, according to the new state law. Unfortunately, we have already heard of schools where class sizes have increased substantially compared to last year. We anticipated this would occur, given cuts to Fair Student […]

September 8, 2023 in Newsletters, Uncategorized, Updates by

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Our comments on the DOE’s class size reduction plan & their inadequate response

August 28 update:  The Daily News published an article about our letter and the fact that DOE omitted its only promise for the coming school year from its revised class size plan, and no longer promises that schools that complied with the class size caps in the law last year would receive support and funding […]

August 22, 2023 in Testimonies & Comments, Uncategorized, Updates by

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Please answer our new class size survey, the education budget, and more!

July 5, 2021 1.       The DOE’s Draft Class Size Reduction Plan, which is required by law to be submitted to the state next month, makes only one cursory commitment for the next school year: Ensure that schools with classrooms that currently meet the class size mandate have appropriate funding to continue to […]

August 15, 2023 in Newsletters, Uncategorized by

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Urge the DOE to take positive steps to lower class size & comply with the law!

August 15, 2023 Dear all – I hope you are having a delightful and restful summer. I wanted to bring to your attention that the DOE has posted an updated draft class size reduction plan that omits the only promise made in their previous plan – that they would help ensure that the schools that […]

August 15, 2023 in Newsletters, Uncategorized, Updates by

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Please answer our brief survey to see if DOE is helping schools maintain new class size caps next year!

The DOE’s Draft Class Size Reduction Plan makes only one real commitment for next year: Ensure that schools with classrooms that currently meet the class size mandate have appropriate funding to continue to maintain these class sizes in SY23-24. Yet there is no information in the plan or otherwise on how  the DOE is planning […]

July 2, 2023 in Uncategorized by

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One-third of schools to see budget cuts; latest news on data breach, and Wed. award dinner honoring Rep. Bowman!

June 26, 2023 1. We’ve done an updated budget analysis that finds that one third of all NYC public schools are facing Galaxy budget cuts as of June 14, compared to the same date last year, and about one-third are also facing Fair Student Funding cuts. We explain here why both are a real concern, […]

June 26, 2023 in Newsletters, Uncategorized by

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Analysis of NYC school budget cuts; updated

Updated 6.29.23 with new analysis excluding summer school cuts and D 75 schools While the DOE stated that no initial school budgets for next year would be cut compared to initial budgets this year, more than a third (33.8%) of NYC public schools show a cut in their total Galaxy budgets for next year as […]

June 23, 2023 in Reports & Memos, Uncategorized, Updates by

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