Class Size Matters is presenting district-specific class size data and information on the city’s failure to comply with the Contracts for Excellence law to Community Education Councils in Feb. and March. The following schedule lists the districts that have signed up thus far. If you’re interested in having someone speak to your district CEC, contact Read more
Here is a sample resolution on the need to reduce NYC class sizes and comply with the Contracts for Excellence law, created February 2013, for public use. Download the file as a document by clicking (here). Or view it below. Share this:
On February 7, 2013, the Massachusetts ACLU, Campaign for Commercial-Free Childhood, Citizens for Public Schools and Massachusetts PTA wrote a joint letter to the Massachusetts Board of Elementary and Secondary Education about the release of students’ personally identifiable information to the Gates-sponsored inBloom, Inc.. New York and Massachusetts are two of nine states that have agreed to share confidential student Read more
Here are comments submitted to the State Education Department on the proposed New American Academy charter, opposing the granting of this charter. The school is based on the model of an existing public school in Brooklyn, that places 60 small children in a room with four teachers, instead of providing them with the proven model Read more
Comments submitted to the State Education Department. You can also download the pdf of this document here. Share this:
The Report and Advisory Board Review Commission, a body with four mayoral appointees and three City Council members, including Speaker Quinn, and Council Members Brewer and Comrie, will hold a public meeting on October 30, 2012, to vote on whether to eliminate 21 reporting requirements and advisory boards, including the DOE’s legally mandated reporting on Read more
On July 26, 2012, Ms. Haimson testified before the Cuomo Commission on Education Reform at Hostos College. For the fifth year in a row, public school parents voted smaller class sizes their top priority in the DOE learning environment surveys. However, NYC public school class sizes have steadily increased, even with increases in state funding. Read more
Leonie Haimson testified before the Report & Advisory Board Review Commission on May 11, 2012 about the need to continue the twice a year class size and annual Temporary Classroom Units (TCUs) reporting. The testimony is downloadable here and below. Share this:
The following testimony on the possible impact of mandatory Kindergarten and the Special Education Initiative from Leonie Haimson, Executive Director of Class Size Matters, was presented before the City Council Education Committee on June 12, 2012. Ms. Haimson first notes the surging class sizes which would erupt from the Department of Education’s Special Education Initiative Read more
Here and below is our testimony before the New York State Assembly on the city’s plan to close and “turnaround” struggling schools, given April 11, 2012. Summary: these strategies will not work, do not address the critical issues, including class size, and will further destabilize and undermine the education of our neediest students. Share Read more
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Saturday Vigil: 4:30 pm
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