NYC Public School Parents: How do you think NYC should spend $8 billion to improve our schools? Make your voice heard!

NYC Public School Parents: How do you think NYC should spend $8 billion to improve our schools? Make your voice heard!

How do you think NYC should spend $8 billion to improve our schools? Make your voice heard!

Class Size Matters is holding our annual Parent Action Conference on Sat. May 22 from 11 AM – 1 PM with NYC Kids PAC, to gain input from parents, teachers and others on how NYC should invest the $8 billion in additional state and federal funds our schools are due to receive in the next two to three years.

Please sign up here, and we”ll send you the Zoom link shortly before the event.

Then take our three-minute survey to express your spending priorities; whose results we will present at the conference.

NYC Public School Parents: How do you think NYC should spend $8 billion to improve our schools? Make your voice heard!

Sign the petition now!

Please use the additional state and federal funds to provide our kids with the smaller classes they will need next year!

Target: NYC Mayor de Blasio and the City Council

SIGN THIS PETITION

NYC Public School Parents: How do you think NYC should spend $8 billion to improve our schools? Make your voice heard!

Great news; with more federal AND state funding, no excuse left for NYC Mayor to deny kids the smaller classes they need! | Class Size Matters

Great news; with more federal AND state funding, no excuse left for NYC Mayor to deny kids the smaller classes they need! | Class Size Matters  | A clearinghouse for information on class size & the proven benefits of smaller classes

Great news; with more federal AND state funding, no excuse left for NYC Mayor to deny kids the smaller classes they need!

1.Tremendous news!  The state finally came through with the additional foundation aid that our schools were promised years ago as a result of the CFE lawsuit, which will mean more than $600 million for NYC schools next year, increasing to an estimated $1.6 billion annually in three years.

This is in addition to the approximately $6 billion our schools will receive in additional federal aid over the next two years. Now the Mayor and the Chancellor have NO excuse not to do the right thing for NYC kids by lowering their class sizes. Smaller classes will be not only more necessary than ever before for health, safety and emotional support, as I said in this article, but should be absolutely required. This is especially critical, given how the state’s highest court in the CFE case said more funding was needed because NYC students were denied their constitutional right to a sound basic education, as evidenced by the fact that their class sizes were too large.

If you haven’t already, please sign our petition to the Mayor and the City Council, urging them to use $1 billion of these funds to lower class size, and $365 million for more school counselors and social workers, for provide our kids with the health and safety precautions and the academic and emotional support they will need next year more than ever before. Also please let me know if you want us to provide a resolution that your CEC, SLT or PTA could pass, urging the Mayor and the Council to do so.

2. We recently released a new Class Size Matters report,  DoE Overspending On Charter School Facility Costs and Underspending On Matching Funds To Public Schools, that revealed that the NYC Department of Education has overspent by many millions on rent for charter schools, while CONTINUE READING: Great news; with more federal AND state funding, no excuse left for NYC Mayor to deny kids the smaller classes they need! | Class Size Matters  | A clearinghouse for information on class size & the proven benefits of smaller classes