Wednesday, May 12, 2021

"Talk out of School" podcast with PEP member Tom Sheppard and Regent Kathy Cashin

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Check out our latest "Talk out of School" podcast with Tom Sheppard on pushing the envelope on Panel for Educational Policy to e...
Monday, May 3, 2021

How do you think NYC should spend $8 billion to improve our schools? Make your voice heard!

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Class Size Matters is holding our annual Parent Action Conference on Sat. May 22 from 11 AM – 1 PM with NYC Kids PAC, to gain input from pa...
Thursday, April 29, 2021

"Talk out of School" podcast with Council Member Danny Dromm, chair of the Finance Committee

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Former teacher and NYC Council Finance chair Danny Dromm has been a champion for student rights and quality public schools.  He spoke to Leo...
Wednesday, April 21, 2021

The City Council has proposed $250 million for smaller classes next year!

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  The NYC Council has now proposed in its preliminary budget response that DOE allocate $250M next year for class size reduction. This amou...
Sunday, April 11, 2021

Parents & community members protest closure of PS 88 in the Bronx; will they be forced to take DOE to court to stop this irrational proposal?

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Student Hope board at PS 88      photo credit: Chauncy Young Stories on the proposed closure of PS 88 have appeared in the Daily News and ...
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Saturday, April 10, 2021

Carranza's new gig with IXL Learning, and its defective and stressful product that DOE has paid millions for & subjected NYC students to use

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In the NY Post today, Sue Edelman wrote an expose of an ed tech company , IXL Learning, that recently hired former DOE Chancellor Richard Ca...
Wednesday, April 7, 2021

Our new report finds DOE overspent by millions on charter school rent; and denied co-located public schools millions in matching funds for facility upgrades

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A new Class Size Matters report,   DoE Overspending On Charter School Facility Costs and Underspending On Matching Funds To Public Schools...
Wednesday, March 31, 2021

Latest Talk out of School podcast with Jasmine Gripper of AQE and MS principal Michael Perlberg

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Check out the latest #TalkoutofSchool with AQE's Jasmine Gripper on what state budget deal is looking like for NYC & MS principal Mi...
Monday, March 22, 2021

Our testimony about why NYC kids will need smaller classes next year than ever before -- & the federal funding is available to achieve this

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City Council education budget hearings were held today.  The DOE offered no plans or thoughts on how to spend the additional $6B or more the...
Thursday, March 18, 2021

Please help us get smaller classes for NYC kids! Please sign our petition and testify on Tuesday!

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Class Size Matters and NYC Kids PAC are advocating for one billion dollars of the approximately $2.5 billion in extra federal funds that NY...
Tuesday, March 9, 2021

Letter from members of Congress to Sec. Cardona asking him to waive the tests; and how to have your voice heard

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Rep. Jamaal Bowman & Ian Rosenblum See the letter sent today by members of Congress to our newly-confirmed Secretary of Education ...
Thursday, March 4, 2021

NYC DOE releases unreliable class size data three months late; please take our survey today!!

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NYC parents, teachers and administrators please take our five-minute class size survey here . I'll explain why: By law, the DOE is supp...