March 9, 2022 Right now, NY state legislators are working on their one-house budgets. Meanwhile, NYC has lost out on more than $2 billion in funds between 2012 and 2020, because they are the only district in the state that is exempted from receiving charter transitional aid, meant to reimburse districts from some of the […]
March 7, 2021 1.The NY Assembly one-house education budget is being discussed and finalized tonight. Please tweet and call your Assembly Member now! Tell them to include smaller classes for NYC kids in the budget. You can find their phone nos. here by plugging your address. Here’s a script: As your constituent, I urge you […]
Illuminate has admitted that personal data of 820,000 students who attended NYC public schools going back to the 2016-17 school year was breached. More on this here. Below is a message that NYC parents (or students if they are over 18) can send to DOE to ask them what personal information the vendor had access […]
March 17, 2022 Dear folks — 1. Class Size Matters would love to hear directly from NYC public school parents, teachers, principals, students and other school staff about how class size and related issues have affected learning in your schools this year. Our survey is posted here. 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 will only 𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗳𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗲𝗻 […]
March 21, 2022 Our written testimony from today’s NYC Council education budget hearings is posted here and below. See also our report released yesterday on the likely effects of the proposed budget cuts to schools and the capital plan by sharply increasing class size and school overcrowding.
March 20, 2022 Today Class Size Matters released a new class size report, entitled “What has happened to class size this year and what will happen to class size if the Mayor’s cuts are enacted?” The report shows significant and highly beneficial decreases in average class size this year citywide due to enrollment decline, though […]
Check out my testimony below and here, on why Mayoral control needs to be amended at the March 4 joint legislative hearings , which were the best in twenty years since this undemocratic and dysfunctional governance system was established. I explain why in my account of the proceedings; you can also watch the video here.
Since this post was written, the Education Law Center has released a similar analysis . According to an estimate from the Independent Budget Office, NYC schools have lost more than $2 billion in state aid between 2012 and 2020, because they are the only district in the state that is exempted from receiving state transitional […]
Below is the memo of support for S7666A and A8801 that we just sent the bill sponsors, Sen. Liu and AM Benedetto. Organizations should send in their own memos of support for this important bill.
Click here to sign our petition for the smaller classes that our kids will need next year more than ever before.
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