The Independent Parent Survey 2/2008
The Independent Parent Survey: Views of New York City public school parents and parent leaders on class size, testing, and Mayoral control February 2008 Share this:
Reports & Memos
A Better Capital Plan 10/2008
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 Share this:
How Crowded Are Our Schools? 10/3/2008
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 Share this:
High School Discharges Revisited 4/30/2009
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
Big cuts in new seats, despite overcrowding crisis, with DOE spinning as a “restoration”
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 Read more
NYC’s secret deal to nullify its class size commitments
September 22, 2010 Revelations concerning SED’s secret backdoor deal with DOE on class size See today’s Juan Gonzalez column here, about the backdoor deal made nearly seven months ago between State Education Commissioner Steiner and Joel Klein, to allow the city to nullify its legal and moral commitments to reduce class size, and to let Read more
The worst NYC schools based on the parent and teacher surveys for 2009-2010
The only information out of the unrealiable 2009-2010 school progress reports that I would trust is the list of schools that got an “F” for environment, based predominantly on poor ratings from the parent and teacher learnng environment surveys, and in the case of middle and high schools, student surveys as well. Here is a Read more
Comments on the HS progress reports 11/3/10
High school progress reports; more unreliable and unfair measures November 3, 2010 Today the high school progress reports were released for 2009-2010; here is an excel spreadsheet. Yet experts continue to have grave reservations as to their reliability, with DOE placing far too much emphasis on test scores and especially the “progress” component, which means Read more
Class Size Matters parent advocacy toolkit
Class Size Matters “Get Advocacy” Parent Toolkit For Parents, Teachers, and Communities (pdf) http://www.classsizematters.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/CSM-Advocacy-Toolkit-2011.pdf Share this:
Class Size Crisis (for UFT parent conference)
November 6, 2010 class_size_crisis_for_UFT_conference_11.10.pdf Share this:
NYC Public School Parents Blog
- My twitter interchange with Murdoch about Amplify's losses, and a NYC parent responds to Amplify's sales pitch May 20, 2013
- Another controversial co-location proposal: hearing Monday on charter school taking space from Harlem adult learning center May 19, 2013
- Letter to King & Regents about inBloom Inc. from CM Robert Jackson, Class Size Matters, Learning Disabilities Association, AQE and CEJ May 19, 2013
- Video of Mayoral forum, moderated by Diane Ravitch; and will Bill Thompson ask Merryl Tisch to stop the sharing of students' personal data with inBloom? May 18, 2013
- Had enough of testing? Have your child boycott the upcoming field tests! May 16, 2013
