Money’s big role in the Charter School fight
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Leonie Haimson is a long time parent activist and the Executive Director of Class Size Matters since 2000, a non-profit organization dedicated to achieving smaller classes in New York City and in the nation as a whole. She co-founded the NYC Public School Parent blog in 2007 and is a regular contributor to the Huffington Post. She won the John Dewey award from the United Federation of Teachers for her work on class size in 2007, and was recognized as a “NYC Family hero” by NY Family magazine in 2008. After collaborating on issues such as mayoral control with Julie Woestehoff of PURE in Chicago, they spearheaded a letter, signed by from parent activists across the nation to Congress and President Obama, about why parent decision-making and class size reduction should be incorporated in their reform agenda. They also wrote an article for Education Week about how the US Department of Education under Arne Duncan has ignored parent voices. Email Leonie - See more at: http://parentsacrossamerica.org/who-we-are/founders-and-partners/#sthash.y9WIGD78.dpuf