Two ways to have your voices heard on AI and class size!
December 12, 2025
A couple of quick requests:
- Please call Gov. Hochul’s office ASAP, especially if you haven’t already, to urge her to sign S7599C, the Loading Act, without weakening its provisions. She is in negotiations right now about what changes she would like to the bill. Recently, she forced significant changes before signing another AI bill that would have required large AI companies to have plans to prevent disasters from the use of their products. If she doesn’t sign the Loading Act before Dec. 31, it will have to go back to the Legislature and start from scratch.
Here are instructions: Call Governor Hochul at (518) 474-8390, give your name, address and phone number, and say “As a constituent I urge Governor Hochul to sign the Loading Act, S.7599C into law, without changes, so that my child’s privacy and safety can be better protected from the risky use of AI tools!” Feel free to tweak your comment anyway you like.
- The outlet Chalkbeat has published several articles about the class size law that have left out the voices of parents, advocates and teachers who support the law and want to see that NYC children have a better chance to learn.
More than a year ago, they published a misleading analysis that purports to show that most high needs students are in classes that already meet the cap, so there is no point in continuing to lower class size as the funding would go to students who need support less. Yet the opposite is true. See our analysis and rebuttal here, showing that the schools with the greatest number of students in poverty and those with other high needs are enrolled in schools with the lowest percentage of small classes in compliance with the law.
Unfortunately, the Chalkbeat misleading analysis has been repeated by DOE, corporate reform education organizations funded by ed tech oligarchs opposed to the law, and even by other reporters in the media without any reservations or their own analysis. I’ve reached out to those media outlets as well as Chalkbeat without success, requesting that they offer our rebuttal or at least explain why their view differs from ours, but they’ve refused.
Chalkbeat has now posted a request for teachers and other school staff to let them know what changes they’ve seen as a result of the class size initiative by entering their comments into this google form here.
I want to encourage teachers and others who work in our schools to provide this feedback, but also ask that you copy and paste them into an email and send them to me at info@classsizematters.org before hitting submit — to provide an imperfect sort of audit of their coverage. This is especially important, as some teachers have told me they’ve had their words twisted or left out of Chalkbeat stories, especially when it comes to the issue of class size.
Thanks, Leonie
Leonie Haimson
Executive Director
Class Size Matters
124 Waverly Pl.
New York, NY 10011
phone: 917-435-9329
leonie@classsizematters.org
http://www.classsizematters.org/
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