Feb. 15, 2025 1. Parents: a quick note to let you know that the deadline to run for your District Community Education or Citywide Council is tomorrow, Sunday Feb. 16. With all the chaos and corruption of the Trump administration and apparently the Mayor’s office as well, this is a way you can […]
Feb. 7, 2025 An important update on privacy news: 1.As reported by the Daily News last night, four NYC schools were affected by the massive PowerSchool breach that occurred in December- contrary to previous assurances from the DOE: Fordham HS for the Arts; Long Island City High School; Lower East Side Prep and Westchester Square […]
Dec. 29, 2024 Dear all — I hope you are having a wonderful holiday break. For many years, Class Size Matters has led the fight for smaller classes in NYC, which culminated in a new law passed in the Legislature, requiring class sizes be phased-in at all NYC schools. This reform was long overdue, given […]
December 18, 2024 A press release about our letter is posted here. The letter is posted here and below. “
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Nov. 2024 – updated Jan. 2025 We have drafted the following resolution for CECs, Community Boards and other groups 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.
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.
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 .
