Saturday, November 25, 2023

Join us Monday Nov. 27 to hear about the Class Size Law and what DOE should be doing to comply!

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Please join us Monday at 7 PM for a meeting on the new class size, what DOE should be doing but it not, and how parents, teachers & othe...
Wednesday, November 22, 2023

Class size press conference at the Title One Landmark elementary school in Brooklyn

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               Andrea Castellano at Landmark school press conference    (photo credit: Melissa Khan)   Updated: Latest Talk out of School po...
Sunday, October 1, 2023

Johanna Garcia on the long, hard struggle for smaller classes

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  I interviewed Johanna Garcia, chief of staff to Sen. Robert Jackson and co-chair of the Class Size Working Group, on my podcast, Talk out ...
Friday, September 29, 2023

Adriana Alicea in support of the class size reduction plan in NYC

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Below is a long and thoughtful submission to the Class Size Working Group from Adriana Alicea, President, PA of the Lynn Gross Discovery Sch...
Tuesday, September 26, 2023

Why Bloomberg's attack on class size doesn't add up; my oped in the Washington Post (plus charts!)

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Last month, Michael Bloomberg wrote an oped in Bloomberg News that was reprinted int the Washington Post and the NY Post , vociferously att...
Wednesday, September 20, 2023

Dangers of DOE plans to expand online learning and ed tech

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Last night I gave a presentation on the ways in which DOE is failing to protect student privacy at a meeting of CEC 15; today I'm testif...
Monday, September 18, 2023

Make your voice heard: how should the DOE be reducing class size?

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Update:  You can also email your suggestions and comments to ClassSize@schools.nyc.gov by Wednesday, October 4th at 12 midnight. The Class ...
Tuesday, September 12, 2023

Tell the Mayor what you think of his new threats of huge budget cuts to come

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Sept. 12, 2023  Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but Mayor Adams has now ordered every city agency to impose an immediate hiring freeze a...
Saturday, September 9, 2023

Please take our five- minute class size survey!

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Welcome to a new school year, and the first year of the phase-in of smaller classes, according to the new state law . Unfortunately, we have...
Sunday, August 13, 2023

Judge Frank's decision to reject the lawsuits to block the damaging co-locations of charter schools and re-locations of transfer schools

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Sadly, on Friday, Judge Lyle Frank ruled against the lawsuit to stop two Success charter school co-locations and the relocation of two tran...