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Thursday, December 29, 2011

NYC Public School Parents: Please help us fight for smaller classes in 2012!

NYC Public School Parents: Please help us fight for smaller classes in 2012!:

Please help us fight for smaller classes in 2012!

Class sizes are increasing throughout the nation, and here in NYC, classes are larger in over a decade in many grades. This fall, there were over seven thousand classrooms which violated the union contractual levels. These sharp increases have occurred despite the fact that New York’s highest court had ruled that our students are deprived of their constitutional right to an adequate education, due in large part to excessive class sizes.

This is a worsening crisis that must be stopped. Please make atax-deductible donation today to help us fight this trend.

Adding insult to injury, over the past year, some of the richest and most powerful men in America – including Bill Gates and Michael Bloomberg – have come out in favor of increasing class size, claiming that this would be good for our kids, while