Compelling testimony including videos from yesterday's hearings on the importance of lowering class size for NYC students.

Much of the testimony yesterday at the City Council was compelling about the importance of lowering class size and the need to pass Intro 2374 for the sake of NYC students. Class Size Matters testimony is here. Testimony of Michael Mulgrew, UFT President, is here. An article about these hearings is here. 

If you'd like to submit written testimony, you can do it here through Saturday.  Please also email it to us at info@classsizematters.org so we can post it on our website.

Below are videos and written testimonies of Board of Regents member and former Superintendent Kathleen Cashin, education historian and advocate Diane Ravitch, Elsie McCabe Thompson, President of the Mission Society, Curtis D. Young, Executive Director of Artistic Noise, and Marissa Manzanares, parent and CEC 14 member. 

Kathleen Cashin Testimony (10.27.21) from Class Size Matters on Vimeo.

Curtis D. Young Testimony (10.27.21) from Class Size Matters on Vimeo. Marissa Manzanares Testimony (10.27.21) from Class Size Matters on Vimeo.