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Update: the lawsuit was covered by the Daily News, AM New York, Chalkbeat, and CBS radio so far. The legal papers are posted here. For immediate release: July 18, 2022 Contact: Leonie Haimson: 917-435-9329; leoniehaimson@gmail.com; Laura D. Barbieri 914-819-3387; Lbarbieri@advocatesny.com NYC Parents And Teachers File Lawsuit Today Against Mayor Adams’ Savage Cuts To School […]
July 18, 2022 in Press Releases, Uncategorized, Updates by leoniehaimson
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For immediate release: July 1, 2022 Contact: Marina Marcou-O’Malley: 518-894-6834, marina@aqeny.org<mailto:marina@aqeny.org> Leonie Haimson: 917-435-9329; leoniehaimson@gmail.com<mailto:leoniehaimson@gmail.com> Anger and distress at Gov. Hochul refusing to sign class size bill along with mayoral control bill Parents, education advocates and elected officials reacted with dismay and alarm at the fact that Gov. Hochul signed the mayoral control bill last […]
July 3, 2022 in Press Releases, Uncategorized, Updates by leoniehaimson
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Updated: June 5, 2022 The class size bill passed the NY State Senate Thursday afternoon at 59-4; and the Assembly early Friday morning; 147-2. Pretty good articles about the passage were published in Gothamist, Chalkbeat , Politics NY and News 4 NY. Other mainstream media outlets merely uncritically repeated long-debunked anti-class size myths. Now please […]
June 3, 2022 in Press Releases, Uncategorized, Updates by leoniehaimson
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For immediate release: Feb. 15, 2022 Contact: Leonie Haimson, leoniehaimson@gmail.com; 917-435-9329 Education advocates and parents speak out against appointment of Joe Belluck to the Panel for Educational Policy The news that Joe Belluck, chair of the SUNY charter committee, is going to be appointed to the NYC Board of Education, otherwise known as the […]
February 15, 2022 in Press Releases, Updates by leoniehaimson
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For immediate release: April 20, 2021 Contact: Leonie Haimson, leoniehaimson@gmail.com; 917-435-9329 NYC Council proposes $250 million for class size reduction next year! In their Preliminary Budget Response, the NYC Council proposes that next year $250 million should be allocated to lowering class size, especially targeted towards struggling schools with vulnerable student populations. This […]
April 20, 2021 in Press Releases, Uncategorized by leoniehaimson
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The NY Daily News and WCBS-TV covered the lack of matching funds issue. We summarized our findings in Gotham Gazette on both the DOE overspending on charter rent and underspending on facility enhancements for co-located public schools. In March 2022, State Senators Liu and Jackson along with Council Education Chair Rita Joseph sent a letter […]
March 25, 2021 in Press Releases, Reports & Memos, Uncategorized, Updates by leoniehaimson
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For immediate release Friday, Feb. 28, 2020 Contact: Leonie Haimson; leoniehaimson@gmail.com; 917-435-9329. Council hearings on class size so overcrowded that scores of parents and advocates are turned away Today, from 10 AM to 3:45 PM, the City Council Education Committee held hearings on class size at City Hall. So many people showed up to testify that it was […]
March 3, 2020 in Press Releases, Updates by admin
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Media Advisory FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 27, 2020 CONTACT: Leonie Haimson, leoniehaimson@gmail.com; 917-435-9329 City Council Hearings on Friday, Feb. 28 to feature testimony from elected and education leaders on need to lower class size in NYC public schools NEW YORK, NY- On Friday, February 28 at 10 AM the NYC Council Education Committee will hold […]
February 27, 2020 in Press Releases by admin
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For immediate release: October 21, 2019 Contact: Leonie Haimson, 917-435-9329, leoniehaimson@gmail.com New report reveals over $100 million spent last year by NYC on charter facilities Includes payments to help charter schools rent space in buildings owned by their CMOs or related parties Also: 175 public schools co-located with charters lack $22M in matching funds […]
October 21, 2019 in Press Releases, Reports & Memos, Uncategorized, Updates by leoniehaimson
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The Daily News covered this story here. The full report is here. For immediate release: December 18, 2018 More information: leoniehaimson@gmail.com; 917-435-9329 School overcrowding in NYC has been worsened by the expansion of pre-K and 3-K classes, as detailed in a new report, “The Impact of PreK on School Overcrowding: Lack of Planning, Lack of […]
December 18, 2018 in Press Releases, Uncategorized, Updates by leoniehaimson
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