For immediate release: November 9, 2017 For more information: Leonie Haimson: 917-435-9329, [email protected] Johanna Garcia: 646-651-9728, [email protected] NYC Parent files FERPA complaint to US Department of Education DOE violated her child’s privacy by disclosing personal information to charter schools without her consent On Monday, Nov. 6, Johanna Garcia, President of the Community […]
This testimony is downloadable as a pdf here. Leonie Haimson, Class Size Matters October 19, 2017 Dear Chair Nolan and the esteemed members of this Committee: Thank you for holding these important hearings today. My name is Leonie Haimson and I am the Executive Director of Class Size Matters, an advocacy group devoted to informing […]
For immediate release: September 21, 2017 For more information contact: Leonie Haimson, [email protected]; 917-435-9329 Today, Class Size Matters released a new report entitled Seats Gained and Lost in NYC Schools: The Untold Story. For the first time, this study reveals that more than 50,000 NYC public school seats were eliminated during the decade of […]
Sept. 18. 2017 Welcome back to a new school year! 1. Please take our five-minute class size survey to let us know how large your child’s class size is this year; teachers, your input is welcome too! In NYC, the administration has until Sept. 20 to get below the union class […]
July 20, 2017 Some important news to report. First the bad news: 1- The House Appropriations Committee voted yesterday to zero out and totally eliminate more than $2 billion in Title II funds, which are used in many schools to reduce class size, keep teachers on staff, and/or improve teacher quality. If the full House […]
News articles about our legal complaint were reported by in WNYC Schoolbook: Parents Push NY to Enforce Smaller Class Size Law, NY1: Here’s how parents aim to reduce class sizes of city public schools, and the Queens Chronicle: Obey the Law, School Parents Tell City DOE For Immediate Release: July 6, 2017 Contact: […]
The NYC Department of Education has refused to complied with the Contracts for Excellence (C4E) law requiring that they create smaller classes in all grades in our public schools. Instead class sizes are considerably larger now than when the law was passed in 2007. As of the fall 2016, classes in Kindergarten through third grade […]
This testimony along with the Opportunity to Learn index is downloadable as a pdf here. Leonie Haimson, Class Size Matters June 6, 2017 Good evening, Regent Cashin, Regent Reyes, and Commissioner Elia. My name is Leonie Haimson and I’m the Executive Director of Class Size Matters, a non-profit organization dedicated to reducing class size in […]
May 18, 2017 1. This week our Parent Coalition for Student Privacy, along with the Campaign for a Commercial Free Childhood, released a new Parent Toolkit for Student Privacy: A Practical Guide for Protecting Your Child’s Sensitive School Data from Snoops, Hackers and Marketers. We think this is a uniquely valuable resource because it will […]
April 19, 2017 Chronic failures with school planning and siting have resulted in overcrowding citywide. These power points listed below reveal how that latest data from the School Construction Authority’s 2015-2016 “Blue Book” indicate that more than half (56%) of NYC schools are overcrowded (at or over 100% of target utilization). Over half a million […]
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.
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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 .
