Our letter with Ed Law Center, urging Commissioner to require NYC comply with class size law
December 18, 2024 A press release about our letter is posted here. The letter is posted here and below. “
Reports & Memos
Class Size Matters & Education Law Center urge State Commissioner to require NYC to comply with the state’s class size law
For immediate release: December 23, 2024 Contact: Leonie Haimson: 917-435-9329; [email protected] Wendy Lecker: (203) 536-7567, [email protected] On December 18, Class Size Matters and the Education Law Center sent a letter to Commissioner Betty Rosa, pointing out the failures of the NYC Department of Education (DOE) to comply with the class size law. The two organizations […]
Presentation to CPAC: Problems with DOE’s failure to plan for class size reduction
Dec. 12, 2024 Today, we provided a briefing to the Chancellors Parent Advisory Council on the serious problems with the DOE’s implementation of class size reduction, as required by the class size law. Their most glaring failing is the fact that there has been no move to provide space for overcrowded or overenrolled schools. In […]
Sign our petition urging DOE to implement a real class size plan, without exempting as many as half of all schools!
December 4, 2024 Please sign our petition now to the DOE Chancellor and UFT and CSA Presidents, urging them to develop and implement a real, multi-year plan so that all schools will be able to lower class size within the timeframe mandated by the law. Right now, DOE is proposing to exempt all overcrowded schools […]
Resolution Urging the DOE to Implement a Multi-year Plan that will Provide All NYC Students with the Benefits of Smaller Classes
Nov. 2024 We have drafted the following resolution for PTAs, SLTs or CECs to consider, urging the DOE to create and implement a actual multi-year class size plan, that would enable schools to cap enrollment at lower levels if that will be necessary for them to cap class sizes at the required levels, and for […]
Serious concerns with DOE’s proposed weakening of their student privacy regulations & how you can help!
Oct. 21, 2024 Check out the letter here and below, sent today on behalf of Class Size Matters and the Parent Coalition for Student Privacy to the DOE’s chief privacy officer Dennis Doyle, copied to the Chancellor and the members of the Panel for Educational Policy, about the unacceptable way the DOE now proposes to […]
Yet more evidence that DOE has no plan to lower class size to mandated levels
October 17, 2024 See our letter to Commissioner Rosa here and below, that provides yet more evidence that DOE has no actual plan to lower class size as the state law requires. It points out how the number of students in overcrowded schools has only increased since the class size law was passed, and how […]
Chancellor’s resignation, Teenspace, and AI, and how you can help protect student privacy
Sept. 25, 2024 1.Big news – Chancellor Banks is resigning as of Dec. 31, 2024, to be replaced by Melissa Aviles-Ramos, current Deputy Chancellor for Family Engagement. This follows the announced resignations of other top officials, including the Police Commissioner and Commissioner of Health, in the last twelve days. The whirlwind of scandals and investigations […]
FAQ on NY Class Size law & implementation: updated for the 2024-25 school year
This FAQ also available as a pdf here. Updated Sept. 13, 2024 On June 2, 2022, the NY State Legislature passed a bill to by a vote of 59-4 in the Senate and 147-2 in the Assembly, requiring that NYC schools implement a five-year class size reduction plan beginning in the fall of 2022. On […]
Welcome to a new school & concerns about school construction, class size & curriculums
Sept. 5, 2024 Welcome back to a new school year! This is the second year of the legally required phase-in of smaller classes in NYC public schools, and though the Chancellor and others claim that they will meet the goal of 40% classes compliant with the class size limits, this is still uncertain, especially as […]
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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 .
