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Why Parents Opt Out and Our Lawsuit vs The City on School Leadership Team Meetings
August 28, 2015 Dear Friends, A few quick links I wanted to share with you. Last week, I wrote an op-ed with Jeanette Deutermann of Long Island Opt for City and State about why an estimated 225,000 NY parents chose to have their children refuse the state exams last year. Despite the rash of editorials excoriating parents for […]
Update on struggling schools scandal and our C4E comments
August 17, 2015 Dear Friends, I wanted to bring to your attention to a piece I wrote in today’s Gotham Gazette, that puts the recent credit recovery scandals in context and proposes an alternative vision for NYC struggling schools. Please take a look and let me know what you think! Saturday was the deadline for comments […]
The city’s attempt to bury the news of its rejection of the Blue Book Working Group’s recommendations on class size
July 31, 2015 Yesterday, in the middle of summer, the DOE finally released the recommendations of its own Blue Book working group, recommendations which had been finalized last December, according to several reliable sources. (Chalkbeat wrongly reports the date as March.) See also Schoolbook, WNYC radio and DNAinfo, for more information on the recommendations — […]
Update: Public Advocate and NYC Council Final Letter on need for expanded capital plan & Commission
On June 15, 2015 Public Advocate Letitia James, 22 Council Members, many parent leaders and Presidents of Community Education Councils, along with Class Size Matters and the UFT, sent a letter to the Chancellor and the Mayor, urging them to double the seats in the capital plan for school construction, and appoint a Commission to […]
Update: Fact Sheet on School Overcrowding and the Capital Plan
See our fact sheet on school overcrowding and the capital plan below. Click on the link to download.
Updates on opt out and NYC KidsPAC releases Mayor de Blasio’s education report card
April 20, 2015 Dear Friends, As you may have heard, a huge number of kids opted out of the ELA exams last week throughout NY State; the unofficial count so far is more than 183,000 with 72% of districts reporting. Many teachers reported difficult, confusing reading passages on our blog with ambiguous questions, sometimes many […]
Mayor de Blasio’s Education Report Card
For immediate release: April 19, 2015 Contact: Shino Tanikawa, 917-770-8438, [email protected] Leonie Haimson, 917-435-9329, [email protected] Parents and Advocates release Education report card for Mayor de Blasio Grades range from As to Fs in many crucial areas Today, Sunday April 19 at noon, in front of the Department of Education headquarters at Tweed, […]
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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.
Skinny award dinner honoring Rep. Jamaal Bowman!
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 .
