Apr 21, 2021 • 55M

The need for more transparency, accountability and parent input with the new state & federal school funds; guest NeQuan McLean, President of CEC 16

Apr 21, 2021

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Educators of NYC

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.

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Mayor de Blasio’s agreement to fully fund schools’ Fair Student Funding (FSF) formula next year
Local Law 17 of 2019 to create a Fair Student Funding Task Force that would release a report by Sept. 30, 2019 with recommendations on how to improve the FSF formula; which was never released
Testimony of Shino Tanikawa, member of the FSF Taskforce, on how the FSF formula discourages smaller classes
City Council proposal to spend $250 million on class size reduction next year
Court decision requiring the city test charter school students and staff for Covid and city’s appeal of this decision
For more information about the April 26 CEC 16 Community Town Hall about School Safety, go to https://www.cec16.org/ or email cec16@schools.nyc.gov
The link to register for the webinar is: https://nycdoe.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_WmP4QVh7T3mxdj5vbjBCJw .