Demand that the DOE be required to continue reporting on class size and trailers!
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The Report and Advisory Board Review Commission, a body with four mayoral appointees and three City Council members, including Speaker Quinn, and Council Members Brewer and Comrie, will hold a public meeting on October 30, 2012, to vote on whether to eliminate 21 reporting requirements and advisory boards, including the DOE’s legally mandated reporting on class size and Temporary Classroom Units (or TCUs.) (For more on this Commission, see their website at www.nyc.gov/ReportsandBoards )
These laws were passed by the City Council in 2005, mandating reporting on class size and TCUs, as parents, elected officials, and other members of the public were seriously concerned that excessive class size and substandard facilities substantially disadvantaged our public school children. Yet there was little data available to delineate the scope of the problem. The legislation required twice yearly reporting on class size and annual reporting on TCUs.
The Mayor himself recognized the seriousness of the problem, as shown by the fact that in 2006 he promised to