While research has shown that class size reduction benefits all students, the benefits are stronger for students from disadvantaged backgrounds. The fact sheet below addresses how smaller class sizes can reduce the racial achievement gap, with particularly positive effects for black male students. Download here, or read below.
I have much important news to report: 1. Starting May 2, the NY State Education Department is holding forums around the state to hear from parents on how they would like to see the NY student privacy law strengthened, clarified and enforced. This law was passed in 2014 as a result of the controversy over the […]
Below is the our testimony Class Size Matters gave at the City Council hearings on tackling school overcrowding by improving the efficiency and accuracy of school planning and siting. It is also available as a pdf here. More about these hearings on our NYC Public School Parents blog here. Class Size Matters testimony before […]
For immediate release: Monday April 16, 2018 Contact: Leonie Haimson, leoniehaimson@gmail; 917-435-9329 On Thursday April 12, 2018, Class Size Matters, the Alliance for Quality Education and nine parents from all five New York City boroughs filed a lawsuit against the NYC Chancellor Carranza, the Department of Education, and NY Education Commissioner Elia in the […]
1-This week marks the beginning of state testing for grades 3-8 in New York. Check out my blog post on why many parents are still opting their children out of these tests– and why you should consider doing so as well. The exams have no diagnostic value, and have led to an era of damaging test prep, […]
3/28/18 Yesterday, parents from PS 25 in Brooklyn filed a lawsuit to keep their school from closing. The closure proposal, approved by the Panel on Educational Policy last month, is especially shocking given that PS 25 is the fourth best public elementary school in the city and the second best in Brooklyn according to the DOE’s own […]
For Immediate Release: Tuesday, March 27, 2018 Contact: Leonie Haimson, 917-435-9329; leoniehaimson@gmail.com Today a lawsuit was filed in the Brooklyn State Supreme Court against the proposed closure of P.S. 25 Eubie Blake in District 16, Brooklyn, a zoned neighborhood school, which Chancellor Carmen Farina and the Board of Education are attempting to close without […]
This blog post was first posted here. A PDF version is available. Thursday, March 15, 2018 New evidence of an extreme gender bias in selective high school admissions demands an independent evaluation of the exam Today, Ben Chapman of the NY Daily News wrote about the disproportionate number of girls rejected from the highly-selective Specialized high schools […]
This PowerPoint discusses the planned closure of PS 25, and the evidence showing that PS 25 is one of the best elementary schools in New York City.
Many of the software programs being used in schools have uncertain value, and can undermine student privacy, engagement and authentic learning. I hope that this guide will help chip away at some of the massive hype that has surrounded the subject of so-called “personalized learning” in recent years. It offers questions parents should ask their […]
You’re invited! Class Size Matters will hold our annual Skinny Awards on Wednesday, June 12th. You can sign up for the event here.
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 .
