Planning for class size reduction: presentation to Public Advocate office
March 9, 2023 See here or below, presentation provided the Public Advocate’s office.
Presentations
Tonight’s Talk out of School, new capital plan cuts to schools, the charter cap and more!
March 5, 2023 Tonight, Sunday on the WBAI radio show #Talk out of School at 7 PM EST, I’ll be interviewing new PEP member Naveed Hasan on the influx of refugee children in NYC schools – are they getting enough support? Also, parent advocate Cassie Creswell will talk about the fascinating Chicago mayoral race in […]
New proposed capital plan cuts $2.3B for new school seats compared to plan adopted in 2021
March 5, 2023 The new proposed amendment to the 5-year capital plan for schools was recently released; you can check it out here. Compared to the capital plan adopted in June 2021, the DOE/SCA wants to cut the number of new school seats to be built by 38% — or over 21,000. This is inconceivable […]
Why the charter cap should NOT be raised & what should CECs and parents do about this.
Updated March 5, 2023 You can send an email to your Legislators here, in opposition to Gov. Hochul’s proposal to lift the NYC charter cap and that instead the charter law needs to be strengthened, to eliminate NYC’s onerous and unfair obligation to provide all new and expanding charter schools with space, remove loopholes which […]
State budget testimony: Mayor plans to making even more cuts to school budgets next year, despite $568 million more in state Foundation aid
Feb. 12, 2023 Below see Class Size Matters’ testimony from last week’s State education budget hearings, which describe some of the many reasons we are extremely concerned that the DOE is not prepared to meet the class size limits in the new state law, especially in the out years, given repeated cuts to school budgets, […]
Send a message today, urging the Gov & Legislature: Don’t raise the cap on charters; instead repeal NYC’s obligation to give them with space & require more accountability!
Feb. 7, 2023 Last week, Gov. Hochul proposed raising the cap on charter schools so that 100-300 more could be authorized statewide and in NYC, since every new charter school is allowed to expand to all grade levels. Charters are already costing the city about $3 billion per year, and this could double the cost, […]
Last chance in 2022 to help us fight for a quality education!
Dec.27, 2022 1. In the last few days of 2022, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Class Size Matters, so we can continue making progress in 2023. It was a landmark year as we helped persuade the NY State legislature to pass a new law to require smaller classes in all grades in the […]
Mayor proposes additional cuts of $800 million to DOE; how school budgets would be affected unclear
January 13, 2023 Yesterday, the Mayor released his preliminary budget for next year. DOE as a whole would be cut by another $800 million, over and above a cut of an additional $176 million made in November. Though more than $500 million of these reductions appear to relate to the decision to halt the further […]
Cuts to school budgets as of Jan. 12, 2023 compared to last year total $823 million net
January 12, 2023 Yesterday, we re-ran the numbers on the Galaxy cuts to schools for this year, and the total net cuts at this point compared to last year are now at $823 million. Fully 86% of schools have experienced cuts to their budgets totaling $893 million, averaging about $655,000 each. See the table below. […]
Please help us ensure that DOE follows through & implements an effective, equitable class size reduction plan in 2023!
December 19, 2022 It’s been something of a banner year for Class Size Matters, as we helped get a new law passed that will obligate NYC schools to lower class size in all grades, to be phased-in starting next fall. This has been our top priority since we launched our organization over twenty years ago, […]
Sign up for our annual Skinny Awards on June 12th!
You’re invited! Class Size Matters will hold our annual Skinny Awards on Wednesday, June 12th. You can sign up for the event here.
Take our 5-minute class size survey!
Talk out of School: WBAI Sunday at 7 PM EST or as a podcast
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.
Skinny award dinner honoring Rep. Jamaal Bowman!
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 .
