NYC DOE releases Class Size Data three months late & it appears highly inaccurate | Class Size Matters

NYC DOE releases Class Size Data three months late & it appears highly inaccurate | Class Size Matters | A clearinghouse for information on class size & the proven benefits of smaller classes

NYC DOE releases Class Size Data three months late & it appears highly inaccurate

By law, the DOE is supposed to report on class sizes twice a year, the first time on Nov. 15 and then again on Feb. 15.  We had heard from parents of egregiously large classes sizes this fall for many students engaged in remote learning of sixty students or even more, either full-time or part-time. See articles in NY Post, WSJ and Gothamist about this issue.

So we realized it would be important for the DOE to report on disaggregated class sizes, i.e. in-person, vs. full-time remote, vs. part-time remote for blended learning students.  On Oct. 28, Council Member  Mark Treyger, chair of the Education Committee sent a letter to DOE, urging them to make the legal deadline of Nov. 15 and provide the disaggregated data. His letter is here  which a Chalkbeat article reported on.

At a press conference on Oct. 26, Chancellor Carranza said that schools had been reporting attendance to DOE in “literally three buckets of attendance every single day“: in-person classes, remote blended learning classes, and full-time remote classes.  So reporting the class size data in these three separate categories should not have been difficult for them to do.

Yet on November 16, Karin Goldmark of the DOE  responded to CM Treyger’s letter, to say they would CONTINUE READING: NYC DOE releases Class Size Data three months late & it appears highly inaccurate | Class Size Matters | A clearinghouse for information on class size & the proven benefits of smaller classes

Mitchell Robinson: Betsy DeVos Resigns | Eclectablog

Betsy DeVos Resigns | Eclectablog

Betsy DeVos Resigns

I wish I could find more satisfaction in something I’ve hoped would happen for 4 years.

But as usual, Ms. DeVos did the absolute least she could do (resign), well past the time when it could have made a difference (with 13 days left in her lamest of all duck terms), and is probably only doing it to avoid doing something she doesn’t want to do (invoke the 25th Amendment).

DeVos resigned, allegedly, because her boss’ insurrection attempt was an “inflection point” she simply couldn’t ignore.

• Not gutting regulations intended to protect students, many of whom are veterans, minorities, and first-generation college attendees, from being defrauded by predatory schools and colleges, and putting the interests of these for-profit colleges—some of which she has personal financial interests in—ahead of students. She ignored that.
• Not dismissing civil rights complaints and ripping up guidance that urged public schools to allow transgender students to use restrooms that conform to their gender identity. She ignored that.
• Not rolling back sexual assault policies on college campuses, establishing a higher bar for victims reporting complaints, and forcing survivors to be cross-examined by their attackers in CONTINUE READING: Betsy DeVos Resigns | Eclectablog