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Radical cuts in funding and elimination of transparency in new Five-Year capital plan

November 8, 2023 The DoE/SCA released the new proposed Five-Year Capital Plan for FY 2025 – 2029 last week, the first to even mention the new class size law, which will require more schools to be built in overcrowded areas to create sufficient space for the smaller classes. Yet the number of new schools to […]

November 8, 2023 in overcrowding, Reports & Memos, Uncategorized, Updates by

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Comments to NYSED on how their proposed regs on the class size law omit the public process timeline in the law

Update Jan. 5, 2024: As we requested, the mandated timeline was put into the final regulations. November 8, 2023 Below and here  see comments from Class Size Matters, Alliance for Quality Education, and the Education Law Center on the proposed State regulations concerning the public process required for the development and submission of the new […]

November 8, 2023 in Testimonies & Comments, Uncategorized, Updates by

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Four ways you can help us fight for smaller classes!

October 18, 2023 1. Class Size Matters, the Education Law Center and AQE sent a letter to the State Commissioner earlier this week, critiquing the final draft class size plan that DOE submitted to the state for approval on Sept. 29. This new plan makes no significant changes from the previous one posted in July, […]

October 18, 2023 in Newsletters, Uncategorized, Updates by

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CSM, Ed Law Center & AQE critique of DOE’s revised draft class size plan

Oct. 16, 2023 Below and here is the letter sent today to Commissioner Rosa and the Board of Regents from Class Size Matters, the Education Law Center and AQE, critiquing the DOE revised class size plan submitted to the State on Sept. 29 and asking the Commissioner and the Board of Regents to require a […]

October 16, 2023 in Testimonies & Comments, Uncategorized, Updates by

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How the attacks on small class size don’t add up

September 28, 2023 I wanted to share with you my piece in Monday’s Washington Post, written in response to Michael Bloomberg’s attacks against the new class size law.  In my oped, I correct his factual errors and point out his misleading use of data as drawn from a recent Chalkbeat piece.  In case it’s behind […]

September 28, 2023 in Newsletters, Updates by

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Testimony on the dangers of DOE plans to expand online learning and ed tech

Sept. 20, 2023 See below; testimony here and below for today’s NYC Council hearings on the dangers to both privacy and the quality of education of DOE’s plans to expand the use of online learning. See also our presentation last night on the many ways DOE is putting student data privacy at risk and not […]

September 20, 2023 in Testimonies & Comments, Uncategorized, Updates by

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The many ways in which DOE is putting student privacy at risk

Sept. 19, 2023 Last night I gave this presentation to CEC 15, which passed a resolution on the need for DOE to better protect student privacy.  If your CEC or Presidents Council would like us to present to your group, or pass a similar resolution, let us know by emailing us at info@studentprivacymatters.org

September 20, 2023 in Presentations, Privacy, Updates by

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Make your voice heard: how should the DOE be reducing class size?

  The Class Size Working Group appointed by the Chancellor to help develop a plan to lower class size citywide in accordance with the new state law is holding public engagement sessions online and in person starting next week to present their preliminary proposals and get feedback:   Tuesday, September 26th – 5- 7:30pm online […]

September 18, 2023 in Take Action, Uncategorized, Updates by

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Tell the Mayor what you think of his new threats of huge budget cuts to come

September 12, 2023 Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but Mayor Adams has now ordered every city agency to impose an immediate hiring freeze and submit budget cuts for next year totaling nearly 15%: 5% cuts by October 6, another round of 5% cuts by January, and yet another 5% by April. According […]

September 12, 2023 in Newsletters, Updates by

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Welcome to a new school year & tell us how large your classes are!

Sept. 8, 2023 Dear all — Welcome to a new school year, and the first year of the phase-in of smaller classes, according to the new state law. Unfortunately, we have already heard of schools where class sizes have increased substantially compared to last year. We anticipated this would occur, given cuts to Fair Student […]

September 8, 2023 in Newsletters, Uncategorized, Updates by

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