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
Class sizes keep increasing in all areas of the city, despite the Contracts for Excellence (C4E) law passed by the state in 2007, requiring the DOE to reduce class sizes in all grades. We are now in the fifth and final year of the city’s class size reduction plan, only class sizes in the early Read more
Check our NYC Council testimony about the unconscionable budget cuts that the mayor has proposed, that would led to the elimination of 6,000 teaching positions and the sharpest increases in class size in over thirty years. Also check out our proposals as to where more than $1 billion in resources can be found to prevent Read more
Recommendations on School Governance by the Parent Commission NYC • March 2009 The only good thing to come out of the governance debate and well worth reading for anyone interested in the problems with mayoral control. http://www.classsizematters.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/parent_commission_Final_Report.pdf These recommendations were endorsed by: Black New Yorkers for Educational Excellence Brooklyn Society of Ethical Read more
The Independent Parent Survey: Views of New York City public school parents and parent leaders on class size, testing, and Mayoral control February 2008
How to make the city’s new five-year capital plan for school construction…. A Better Capital Plan October 2008 A Report from: Class Size Matters/The Campaign for a Better Capital Plan/The Manhattan Task Force on School Overcrowding The Center for Arts Education/The United Federation of Teachers http://www.classsizematters.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/A_Better_Capital_Plan_final_final.pdf
How Crowded Are Our Schools? New Results from a Survey of NYC Public School Principals Prof. Emily Horowitz (St. Francis College) & Leonie Haimson (Class Size Matters) October 3, 2008 http://www.classsizematters.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/principal_survey_report_10.08_final1.pdf
High School Discharges Revisited: TRENDS IN NEW YORK CITY’S DISCHARGE RATES, 2000-2007 By Jennifer L. Jennings and Leonie Haimson, April 30, 2009 http://www.classsizematters.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/High_School_Discharge_Report_FINAL.pdf Here is a NY Times article about our findings: Number of Students Leaving School Early Continues to Increase, Study Says. This report led to a 2011 audit from the NY State Comptroller’s Read more
Testimony of Leonie Haimson, Executive Director of Class Size Matters Hearing on Int. 354 requiring reporting of student discharge rates and Int. 364 for reporting of student outcomes at closing schools Before the NYC Council Education Committee January 25, 2011
See this DOE press release on their “new” revised amended five year capital plan, which they try to spin as a major restoration, but is really a major cut. In the Feb. 2010 plan (which was adopted in June), the DOE said they would fund 30,000 new seats at $4 billion, which we knew was Read more
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