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DOE’s pitiful performance yesterday at class size hearing

March 1, 2024 1. Just a quick note to say that tonight I will be participating on a panel discussing Mayoral Control and School Governance at 7 PM. You can check out the other panelists and sign up for the Zoom link here. 2. Thanks so much to those of you who testified at the […]

March 18, 2024 in Newsletters by

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Please come and testify at the class size hearings this Thursday!

Feb. 27, 2024 The NYC Council hearing on class size will be held THIS Thursday 2/29/24 at 1 PM; with a press conference at 12 noon in front of City Hall; please come to show your support! To testify remotely or in person sign up here: https://council.nyc.gov/testify/ If you do come to the press conference […]

March 18, 2024 in Newsletters by

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Time to stop requiring DOE pay for charter school rent, so prone to corruption and abuse!

March 7, 2024 Today, Chalkbeat featured an article about a charter school whose affiliated organization hugely inflated the rent on their own charter school to squeeze more money out of DOE. Our 2021 report contained many such examples of fraudulent behavior. Yet DOE is the only district in the state and the nation required to […]

March 18, 2024 in Newsletters by

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Great victory for NYC privacy!

Feb. 20, 2024 1.On Valentine’s Day last week, we received some exciting news. NY Attorney General Tish James had finally forced the College Board to sign a consent decree to halt their practice of selling the personal data of NY public school students– which has been illegal since the state student privacy law passed in […]

March 18, 2024 in Newsletters by

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3 important events happening this week!

March 15, 2024 Just a brief email about three important events happening this week.   First, this Sunday, March 17 at 7 PM, I’ll be hosting a special edition of Talk Out of School on WBAI on 99.5 FM, or www.wbai.org on the problems with the NYC mandated reading curriculum, with my guests: teacher Martina […]

March 18, 2024 in Newsletters by

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Important deadlines this week: submit your views on Mayoral control and the state budget

January 30, 2024 Two important deadlines this week. 1-     The deadline to submit your views on Mayoral control is tomorrow, Wed. January 31, at 5 PM. You can upload your testimony here.   The borough hearings were very well attended, and the overwhelming number of speakers, whether parents, teachers or community members, were […]

February 8, 2024 in Newsletters, Recent Newsletters, Uncategorized by

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News update: class size hearings on Feb. 29, and more

Feb. 8, 2024 1.Save the date! The City Council Education Committee will hold a hearing on Thursday Feb. 29 at 1 PM on the proposals of the Class Size Working Group, and what the DOE is doing or not doing to lower class size. If you support the goal of smaller classes, please sign up […]

February 8, 2024 in Newsletters, Recent Newsletters, Uncategorized, Updates by

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A youth advocate writes to Betty Rosa about the value of smaller classes

December 27,2023   Dear all — I hope you are having a restful and rewarding break during the holidays. We here at Class Size Matters wanted to share with you an eloquent letter written by youth advocate Al Kurland to NY Education Commissioner Rosa, urging her to demand a real class size plan from DOE, […]

December 27, 2023 in Newsletters by

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News flash: lawsuit to block Mayor’s cuts to education!

Dec. 22, 2023 Just a quick note to let you know that yesterday, the UFT filed a lawsuit to block the Mayor’s cuts to education, based on the claim that these proposed cuts violate two state laws. For more on this lawsuit, including links to news articles, check out our NYC parent blog here. Also, […]

December 22, 2023 in Newsletters by

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Please help us continue our work in 2024!

December 20, 2023 In June 2022,  NYC students, parents, and teachers had a great victory with the passage of a new state law that would require class sizes be lowered in our  public schools, starting this fall.  In 2023, we at Class Size Matters worked to try to ensure that the law will be followed […]

December 22, 2023 in Newsletters, Updates by

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