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Latest Talk Out of School: The Fight To Implement the New Class Size Law in NYC - The Press Conference & More
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Latest Talk Out of School: The Fight To Implement the New Class Size Law in NYC - The Press Conference & More

EPISODE SUMMARY

Daniel shared clips from the Tuesday, November 21, 2023 press conference in which, our co-host, Leonie Haimson, director of Class Size Matters, along with UFT President Michael Mulgrew, co-Executive Director AQE Zakiyah Ansari, along with state and local elected officials, parents and educators held spoke about the DOE’s failures to faithfully implemented the new class size law, outside of Brooklyn Landmark Elementary School in Ocean Hill.

At the press conference, they spoke about how growing class sizes have undermined the quality of education for NYC students.

He also interviewed PS599K Landmark teachers and parents: chapter leader Andrea Castellano, Beruryah Batyehudah, a teacher and parent of a 1st grader in which the class sizes are 29 and 31, and teacher Daniel Highsmith. They discussed the impact oversized classes have in their school community.


EPISODE NOTES

Class Size Matters - More than 300,000 NYC Students in High-Need Schools Stuck in Oversized Classes

City and State - Report: More than 300K NYC students are in overcrowded classrooms

UFT: Fight the mayor's budget cuts

Andrea Castellano's remarks at yesterday's class size press conference at the Landmark elementary school in Brooklyn


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Talk Out of School
A weekly podcast and radio show on WBAI 99.5 FM NYC, hosted by Leonie Haimson of Class Size Matters, and Daniel Alicea of Educators of NYC. We speak about the issues and controversies affecting public schools and public education in New York City, statewide and nationally.