Yesterday the NYC Council Education committee held preliminary hearings on the mayor’s proposed education operating budget. Here is a good report from NY1, here is the analysis of the budget by Council staff; here is my testimony [also shown below]. The proposed operating budget for next year, despite an overall increase in spending, would cut Read more
Last week, the Class Size Matters, endorsed four legislative proposals along with the Chancellor’s Parent Advisory Council: On the state budget, to eliminate the Governor’s proposed $250 million in competitive grants and re-allocate those funds so that NYC schools receive more of their fair share; Restore the district structure and district Superintendents to their lawful Read more
This fact sheet was prepared in advance of the mayor’s State of the City Address to be given at Morris High School. It is also available as downloadable fact sheet on the CSM website here. Jan. 11, 2011 Claim: Bloomberg likes to contrast the graduation rate at the old Morris HS to graduation rates at Read more
Jan. 9, 2011 Class Size Matters has released a detailed analysis of the trend in student achievement in NYC since 2003, when Mayor Bloomberg’s educational policies were first implemented, as measured by the NAEPs – the national assessment carried out every two years by the federal government in 4th and 8th grade English and math. Read more
Right before the New Year, Judge Feinman ruled against our request for a preliminary injunction against the DOE’s provision of free space and services to charter schools, in the lawsuit that Class Size Matters, along with other parents and the NYC Parents Union, filed in July. His decision, which was publicly disclosed today, is posted Read more
December 2011 Dear supporter, In the past year, some of the richest and most powerful men in America – including Bill Gates, Arne Duncan and Michael Bloomberg – have come out in favor of increasing class sizes, claiming that this would be good for our kids – even in NYC and other large urban districts Read more
The DOE received over 100 public comments as well as many resolutions from Community Education Councils, protesting the city’s inadequate Contracts for Excellence and class size reduction “plan”. Resolutions were approved by CEC District 1 CEC District 3 CEC District 5 CEC District 20 CEC District 21 CEC District 22 CEC District 30 CEC District Read more
Please send a message to the DOE today; protesting the failure of the DOE to reduce class size and have allowed class sizes to increase to levels that are damaging our children’s education and chance at success. The deadline for comment on the city’s defective Contracts for Excellence plan is tomorrow night, Wednesday, Nov. 23. Read more
Class Size Matters presentations showing increases in class size and other violations in DOE’s Contract for Excellence plans citywide and by district On Nov. 15, the city released this year’s class size data by school, district and borough (click here). Sure enough as we had feared, class sizes increased for the fourth year in a Read more
This testimony is also available as a pdf here; for more on these hearings see our NYC Public School Parent Blog here. Testimony of Leonie Haimson, Executive Director of Class Size Matters Before the NYC Council Technology and Contracts Committees On the NYC Department of Education’s wasteful and corrupt technology contracts October 31, Read more
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