On Tuesday November 10 at 8 PM EST, we are hosting a special briefing on what privacy rights NYC parents have under state and federal law, what questions you should be asking your principals about screen time, ed tech and AI assigned to your children, and what strategies you can use to opt them out […]
Oct. 26, 2026 Two important events this week and one in the near future: 1- The UFT sent the following message to teachers about class size discussions that are supposed to be happening in every school this week. I asked the UFT if parents are supposed to be included in these discussions, as […]
Updated November 2, 2026 Here is the updated spreadsheet of now 118 ed tech products, including five high school AI pilots, that DOE has approved for principal or district use, though more are added each week. We will keep updating this list going forward, which is otherwise unavailable to parents as its sit in an […]
Oct. 15, 2026 [updated Oct. 20, 2026 with more approved products] On Tuesday, DOE officials posted on an internal, private section of their website for school administrators a list of 94 107 ed tech products that they can purchase for use in their schools. They said that these products have gone through their (ineffective) privacy […]
Sept. 16, 2026 Yesterday’s City Council rally and hearing on the excessive use of ed tech and screen time in our schools represented an important step forward in creating more awareness and pressure on the Department of Education to improve their weak guidelines on screen time for students, which have far too many loopholes and […]
Below is a memo of support from Class Size Matters, Parent Coalition for Student Privacy and NYC Kids PAC for S.9051/A.10379, an important bill that would regulate the use of dangerous chatbots. This bill passed both the NY State Senate and Assembly last session, but has not yet been signed by Gov. Hochul. As the […]
Sept. 16, 2026 Yesterday’s City Council rally and hearing on the excessive use of ed tech and screen time in our schools represented an important step forwarrd in creating more awareness and pressure on the Department of Education to improve their weak guidelines on screen time for students, which have far too many loopholes and […]
Sept. 10, 2026 Welcome back to a new school year! I hope you all had a great summer and a good Labor day break. There is a lot happening. Last week, the Mayor and the Chancellor announced new AI/screen time policies to be implemented this school year, while longer term guidance will be developed. Some […]
The slides here and below were presented to the AI Moratorium Coalition steering commitee on Sept. 1, 2026. The last slide has bullet points made up of responses to our questions. There is nothing else in writing that we know of except for the Mayor’s press release here. At the press conference (video here) they […]
June 28, 2026 The state-mandated class size hearings are being held tonight Monday June 29 at 6 PM and run through Thursday via Zoom. Though they are called borough hearings any parent, teacher or community member can attend any of them to speak out about what the DOE’s class size plan should include to […]
Sign the petition asking for a moratorium on the use of AI until rigorous safeguards are established to protect student privacy, learning and the environment.
Talk out of School radio show and podcast airs Sunday night at 7 PM on WBAI 99.5 FM or online at www.wbai.org when Leonie Haimson, Daniel Alicea and Kaliris Salas Ramirez interview guests and discuss issues affecting public schools in NYC, the state level and nationally. You can stream or subscribe to the podcast here at Simplecast; or at iTunes, Spotify or Google.
Sign here to urge NYC to implement a real, multi-year strategy to lower class size, as the law intends, without exempting up to half or more of all students.
