NYC Public School Parents: My email from Klein: instead of reducing class size, he'd rather end seat time

NYC Public School Parents: My email from Klein: instead of reducing class size, he'd rather end seat time

My email from Klein: instead of reducing class size, he'd rather end seat time

by Leonie Haimson

Check out my email to Joel Klein below and his canned reply.

The message was sent through the NYC "take action" page" of the "Waiting for Superman" website, but I considerably tailored it to include the real issues involved in supporting great (or even good) teachers, involving reducing class size, rather than spending money on merit pay and the other bogus ways in which the corporate reformers want to waste our taxpayer funds. In national surveys, teachers overwhelmingly support lowering class size as the most effective way to improve the quality of education, over increasing their salary, merit pay or more