Foundation aid testimony
Dec. 3, 2019 My testimony to the NY Senate on the Foundation aid funding to schools in NYC and statewide is below.
Dec. 3, 2019 My testimony to the NY Senate on the Foundation aid funding to schools in NYC and statewide is below.
Nov. 19, 2019 1.On Nov. 5, the Wall Street Journal published an excellent article about the College Board’s egregious practice of selling student data, showing that an important reason colleges purchase the data is to increase their rejection rates, which then boosts their reputation for selectivity. Though the article is now behind the paywall, here […]
For immediate release: October 21, 2019 Contact: Leonie Haimson, 917-435-9329, leoniehaimson@gmail.com New report reveals over $100 million spent last year by NYC on charter facilities Includes payments to help charter schools rent space in buildings owned by their CMOs or related parties Also: 175 public schools co-located with charters lack $22M in matching funds […]
October 11, 2019 Good news! After I published an oped in the Washington Post about how the NY State Education Dept. had proposed regulations that would allow the sale of student data and its use for marketing purposes, and after more than 600 of you sent in comments opposing this attempt to undermine the strong […]
Sept.6, 2019 Welcome back to a new school year! I hope you had a great summer. 1.I have exciting news to report: I will be co-hosting a new weekly radio show on WBAI, called Talk out of School, with Carol Burris, executive director of the Network for Public Education. Our first show will be aired […]
August 6, 2019 Dear Speaker Johnson and members of the City Council: We are very disappointed in the process and outcome of the School Siting Task Force, created by Local Law No. 168 in Sept. 2018. The law mandated the creation of an “interagency task force” to facilitate the acquisition of publicly and privately-owned […]
July 31, 2019 I hope you are having a relaxing summer. Unfortunately, the last few weeks haven’t been much fun for Class Size Matters. We recently discovered that we lost over $7000, including the donations to our annual fundraiser in June, because NYCharities, our online processor, appears to have collapsed, as reported by Fox News. […]
On Tuesday June 11 at noon, more than one hundred parents, students, advocates, elected officials and union members gathered on the steps of City Hall to urge the NYC Department of Education and the Mayor to allocate specific funding in next year’s budget towards reducing class size. Below is a video of the rally. Thanks […]
On Thursday May 23, 2019 the Education Law Center filed an appeal on behalf of nine NYC parents, Class Size Matters and the Alliance for Quality Education, urging the Appellate court to order the Department of Education to reduce class size in all grades as the Contracts for Excellence law requires. Our original lawsuit, Agostini vs. Elia, was filed […]
1. Save the date! On Wednesday June 19 we will hold our annual Skinny award dinner at Casa La Femme on 140 Charles St. The honorees will be Attorney General Tish James for her steadfast and courageous leadership in supporting public school students and parents over many years; and NYC Kids PAC, the only political action committee that rates candidates […]