Thursday, February 13, 2020

Local Law 167 & 168, Information and Memo to City Council | Class Size Matters

Local Law 167 & 168, Information and Memo to City Council | Class Size Matters | A clearinghouse for information on class size & the proven benefits of smaller classes

Local Law 167 & 168, Information and Memo to City Council



Two bills were passed last year by the City Council, with the goal of helping to alleviate school overcrowding: Local Law 167 which required the DOE to make more transparent its data sources and methodology for projecting the need for new school seats, and Local Law 168, which created a Task Force for School Siting to expedite the identification of locations where new schools could be built.
Both laws  resulted from recommendations made by the City Council Working Group report Planning to Learn, as well as problems we had previously identified in our reports, including, Space Crunch and  Seats Gained and Lost in NYC Schools: The Untold Story.
Local Law 167 came into force on December 1, 2019.  The SCA/DOE claims to have provided the data here:  http://www.nycsca.org/community/capital-plan-reports-data#Local-Law-167-Reports-352
But much of the data required is missing, and in fact the DOE is providing no more data than in years past: