Bronx parents advocate for the option of remote learning in the fall & Ross Barkan on what the results of the primaries mean for NYC schools

Class Size Matters - The rally for smaller classes followed by three misleading claims from the DOE & SCA at the class size hearings

Daily News - NYC Council demands progress report on class size reduction

The City Council hearing  - http://tinyurl.com/classsizehearing

The rally before the hearing video

Leonie's written testimony

Educational Council Consortium testimony

Testimony of Michael Sill, Assistant Secretary of the United Federation of Teachers

Retiree Advocate

The New York City Organization of Public Service Retirees

The Wire:  UFT RTC election race launches with Retiree Advocate/UFT slate announced at UFT HQ

Work Bites: ‘We Will Be in This Building!’ Medicare Advantage Foes Launch Bid to Win Control of UFT Chapter

The Wire: Mulgrew and UFT Unity, Not MLC, Initiated Health Cuts

Sign up to testify at NYC Council class size hearings on Feb. 29 at 1 PM 

News articles on NYS Legislature education budget hearings: NY1 and The City here  and here 

Class Size Matters budget testimony

Class Size Matters Testimony on Mayoral control  and presentation  to the NYC Bar Association

Purchase Laura Pappano's book, School Moms: Parent Activism, Partisan Politics, and the Battle for Public Education at Beacon Press or Amazon

USA Today, In school board elections across America, voters offer stunning rebuke of culture war politics 

Bucks County Beacon, Pulling Back the Curtain on the Leadership Institute’s Dominion Over Moms for Liberty 

Mother Jones, That Time when Moms for Liberty Came to Deep Blue NYC

CNN, Moms for Liberty faces new challenges and growing pushback over its conservative education agenda

NYS - GOVERNOR HOCHUL ANNOUNCES HIGHLIGHTS OF FY 2025 EXECUTIVE BUDGET

Gothamist - Profoundly disappointed': Hundreds of NY schools could get less state money in new budget

NYSUT releases analysis on Governor Hochul’s executive budget: Broken promises and backtracking

 Chalkbeat NY - Hochul proposes more than $800 million funding increase for NY schools, 4-year extension of mayoral control

Alliance For Quality Education

Take Action: AQE Petition

Learn more: FundOurFutureNY.org

Leonie Haimson, Testimony on the myth of accountability under Mayoral control 

Schedule and videos of Mayoral control hearings

Politico, Lawmakers to consider Adams approach to class size as they weigh mayoral control 

Submit written comments on Mayoral control by Jan. 31, 2024 here: https://www.nysed.gov/main/form/submit-written-electronic-testimony-nyc-mayoral-control

Tim Schwab, The Bill Gates Problem:  Reckoning with the Myth of the Good Billionaire

Student Privacy Matters, Background of inBloom Controversy 

InBloom: The FOILed emails 

Bill Gates and Mayoral control 

How to shrink class sizes in NYC? A working group shares its recommendations

Recommendations from Class Size Working Group

NYC’s class size working group delivers recommendations — but some members dissent

NYC migrant families fear kids will be sleeping in the streets as shelter deadlines near

Thousands of migrant kids are starting school in NYC. Is the system prepared?

Sources:

Diane Ravitch -Website

Network of Public Education

NAEP scores show record drop in math for New York City’s fourth graders, but not in reading

American Students Outperformed Much of the World During the Pandemic

Federal Judge Orders NYC to Fix Special Education Service and Payment Delays

Mayoral control comes under fire at Bronx public hearing

GOP states are embracing vouchers. Wealthy parents are benefitting.

AB Snyder: Book bans are the new norm in school libraries across the country

Voters drub Moms for Liberty ‘parental rights’ candidates at the ballot

Gaspare Randazzo's site

Gaspare on Instagram

Chalkbeat NY - Mayoral control comes under fire at Bronx public hearing

New York City Mayoral Control Hearings Info

View Bronx hearing video

Mayoral control in the eyes of three NYC parent leaders

Class Size Matters & AQE,  Press release and letter to SED, urging that NYC be required to produce a corrective action plan on class size reduction. 

Register to Testify at NYC Council Hearing on budget cuts Monday, December 11th, at 10:00am; Progressive caucus rally against budget cuts that morning at 9 AM in City Hall Park.

NYSED Schedule of mayoral control hearings, Dec. 5 thru Jan. 29 in various boroughs

The City: Two Years of Mayoral School Control for Eric Adams — With New Strings Attached 

NeQuan McLean and Shino Tanikawa, It’s Time for a Democratic School Governance System to Replace Mayoral Control

2009 Parent Commission Report on School Governance

NYC Comptroller report, 2013: No more Rubber Stamp

Ed Week, Mayoral control: a Fading school reform

To sign up for ECC briefings on Mayoral control, register at tinyurl.com/eccsupporters

Class Size Matters - More than 300,000 NYC Students in High-Need Schools Stuck in Oversized Classes

City and State - Report: More than 300K NYC students are in overcrowded classrooms

UFT: Fight the mayor's budget cuts

Andrea Castellano's remarks at yesterday's class size press conference at the Landmark elementary school in Brooklyn