Below is a screenshot of our latest interactive webmap, which shows utilization rates at schools across New York City, revealing how many overcrowded schools are close to underutilized schools of the same grade levels. The data is from the latest 2025-2026 Enrollment, Capacity and Utilization Report, known as the “Blue Book.” By using the dropdown […]
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 […]
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 […]
Oct. 7, 2026 1.There’s an important bill just waiting on Gov. Hochul’s desk to be signed, S.9051/A.10379, that would restrict dangerous AI chatbots for the first time. Chatbots have been shown to undermine student learning, mental health and social development, yet they are still being used in many NYC schools –including Google Search, which acts […]
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 […]
We sent these questions to DOE on Sept. 4, 2026. We will add the answers if and when we get a response. Meanwhile, parents and others are encouraged to ask these and other questions of their choice to their principals and Superintendents as well. Follow-up questions to DOE about their new AI / screentime policies […]
Sept. 2, 2026 Below is the press release the AI Moratorium Coalition put out this morning. Much of the reporting on the DOE’s revised policy has so far been inaccurate or misleading. Here are the slides that were presented to our steering commitee yesterday. The last slide has bullet points made up of responses 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.
