En español aquí. Oct. 30, 2025 1. A pretty amazing meeting of the Panel for Educational Policy occurred last night. Three AI contracts did NOT get approved by the Panel, despite a push by the DOE to keep rapidly expanding the risky technology in classrooms around the city. Thanks so much to the parent leaders, […]
Oct. 27, 2025 Last week we gave a privacy briefing to parents, co-sponsored by the Parent Coalition for Student Privacy and the Education Council Consortium. Thanks to those of you who attended; the presentation is here. During the briefing, I suggested some questions that parents should be asking their schools about their privacy policies and […]
The NYC Department of Education and public schools are using more than 500 ed tech programs and other apps that collect, process and at times redisclose personal student data in ways that undermine children’s privacy. We have found that the privacy policies and practices of some of these programs are not fully compliant with the […]
October 22, 2025 We gave this presentation to NYC parents on how to opt out of data disclosures by DOE and their schools, and what right they have and what questions should be asked about those data disclosures that they cannot opt out of. “
Sept. 23, 2025 Dear all — Last Thursday, September 18, 2025, several large charter school networks held a protest rally in Cadmen Plaza and a march across the Brooklyn Bridge to push for the continued expansion of the charter school sector. This was apparently provoked by the fact that the leading candidate for Mayor, Zohran […]
An analysis of NYC Comptroller audits from 2003 to 2025 finds that Brad Lander has done only four audits of the Department of Education – far fewer than any other Comptroller at this point in office.
See our Myths vs. Facts sheet for more info. The prior FAQ from Sept. 2024 is here. September 2025 FAQ on the NY Class Size Law On June 2, 2022, the NY State Legislature passed a bill to by a vote of 59-4 in the Senate and 147-2 in the Assembly that required NYC schools […]
Sept. 15, 2025 1. Welcome back to another school year. Along with the cell phone ban, another important change is that 741 schools received funds to hire about 3,700 additional teachers to lower class size, with the goal of no more than 20 students per class in grades K-3; 23 in grades […]
You can access this summary here or below. Important to note that the brief Parent Bill of Rights offered by the state and posted by DOE omits many of the most important rights of parents under State Law 2D. “
July 29, 2025 Yesterday, we sent our detailed critique to Education Commissioner Rosa of the DOE’s submitted class size plan for the 2025-2026 school year. As in earlier “plans”, it lacks the critical information required by law, including specific data about where additional staff and space will be created so that the mandated benchmarks of 60% of classes […]
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