You can access this summary here or below. Important to note that the brief Parent Bill of Rights offered by the state and posted by DOE omits many of the most important rights of parents under State Law 2D. “
July 29, 2025 Yesterday, we sent our detailed critique to Education Commissioner Rosa of the DOE’s submitted class size plan for the 2025-2026 school year. As in earlier “plans”, it lacks the critical information required by law, including specific data about where additional staff and space will be created so that the mandated benchmarks of 60% of classes […]
July 2, 2025 Public comments are due on DOE’s draft Class Size Reduction Plan for the 2025-2026 school no later than July 8, next Tuesday, by emailing ContractsForExcellence@schools.nyc.gov. You can also sign onto our comments, by entering your information here no later than Monday June 7 at midnight. An appendix with charts backing up these […]
June 7, 2025 Here is our briefing at the Parent Action Conference on June 7, on the class size situation in NYC public schools and the deficiencies in the DOE’s plan to comply with the class size law, passed in 2022, requiring smaller classes in all grades to be phased in by Sept. 2028.
June 16, 2025 This Wednesday night, June 18, at 6:30 PM we are holding our annual Skinny Award dinner, to honor Commissioner Betty Rosa as the first state education leader in the nation to openly defy Trump’s attempt to eliminate diversity and equity from our schools. If you appreciate her courage, and/or value the work […]
Our June 7 Parent Action Conference was a great success, with terrific speeches from former principal and Congressman Jamaal Bowman and NYC Council Education Chair Rita Joseph, as well as informative presentations, thought-provoking discussions and a call to action. If your CEC or community group would like a similar presentation on any of the topics […]
July 9, 2025 There will be hearings on the city’s class size plan July 10-June 16, 2025. Each session starts at 6 PM via Zoom; but you can start logging on at 5 PM at https://learndoe.org/contractforexcellence The list of hearings by borough is below but you can attend ANY of these meetings, wherever you live, […]
Nov. 25, 2024 See below; and here. Our testimony to the NYC Council Health committee about our continuing concerns with the privacy violations of Talkspace, with whom the NYC Dept. of Health has a $26 million contract to provide free mental health counseling to teens; “
The letter is embedded below the press release. For immediate release: May 27, 2025 For more information: Leonie Haimson, info@studentprivacymatters.org; 917-435-9329 Rosa Diaz, Rdiaz.cec4@gmail.com; 347-885-1687 Shannon Edwards, shannon@aiforfamilies.com; 347-719-2161 Kaye Dyja, kdyja@nyclu.org; 212-203-3532 On Wednesday May 28, 2025, the Panel for Educational Policy is scheduled to vote on the revisions to Chancellor’s regulation A-820, which […]
May 20, 2025 Today the NYC Council Finance and Education Committees held a hearing on the NYC education budget and the five-year capital plan. There was questioning on class size as well as many other issues. Lots of students spoke eloquently on the need for mental health services, better food and restorative justice. Our testimony […]
Please join us on Wed. June 18 when we will honor Dr. Betty Rosa, former Bronx principal, District Superintendent, Board of Regents member and now NY State Education Commissioner for courageously standing up against the Trump administration on the importance of preserving Diversity, Equity and Inclusion programs in our public schools. Wine and food will be served!
Sign up here for our Annual Parent Action Conference on June 7th 2025, with keynote speaker Jamaal Bowman!
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.
