Contracts for Excellence: New York City’s failures and violations of law as regards class size (UPDATED) CEC District 11 November 20, 2011 Leonie Haimson,

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Contracts for Excellence: New York City’s failures and violations of law as regards class size (UPDATED) CEC District 11 November 20, 2011 Leonie Haimson, Class Size Matters

Why is class size important? Class size reduction one of 4 reforms proven to work through rigorous evidence, acc. to Inst. Education Sciences, research arm of US Ed Dept. * Benefits especially large for disadvantaged & minority students, very effective at narrowing the achievement gap. NYC schools have largest class sizes in state; in 2003, NY’s highest court said students denied constitutional right to adequate education as a result of excessive class sizes (Campaign for Fiscal Equity decision). 86% of NYC principals say cannot provide a quality education because of excessive class sizes. Smaller classes are top priority of parents on DOE learning environment surveys every year. *Other three K-12 evidence-based reforms, are one-on-one tutoring by qualified tutors for at-risk readers in grades 1-3, Life-Skills training for junior high students, and instruction for early readers in phonemic awareness and phonics.

Despite claims of administration, stagnant achievement in NYC schools since Bloomberg elected Over the last 8 yrs., NYC black & Hispanic students fallen further behind their peers in other large cities, according to national assessments (NAEPs); NYC only city where non-poor students have lower NAEP average scores than in NYC’s real graduation rate about 54% (including discharges), & three-quarters of HS grads need remediation in college. Only 21% of HS grads are “college ready”; and those needing triple remediation* at CUNY have doubled in last 5 years. * Triple remediation means make-up classes in reading, writing & math.

Contracts for Excellence In April 2007, NY State settled the Campaign for Fiscal lawsuit by passing the Contracts for Excellence (C4E) law. State agreed to send billions in additional aid to NYC & other high needs school districts; which they would have to spend in six approved areas, including class size reduction.* In addition, NYC had to submit a plan to reduce class size in all grades. In fall of 2007, the state approved DOE’s plan to reduce class sizes on average to no more than 20 students per class in K-3; 23 in grades 4-8 and 25 in core HS classes. In return, NYS has sent $2.4 billion in C4E funds to NYC since *other allowed programs include Time on Task; Teacher & Principal Quality; Middle & HS Restructuring; Full-Day Pre-K; & Model Programs for English Language Learners

But class sizes have risen sharply in all grades since 2007…esp. in K-3; now citywide largest in 11 yrs! This year’s class size data at

4 th -8 th grade class sizes also increased far above C4E goals

Also in HS: average class sizes have risen

D11 has highest percentage of Kindergarteners in large classes in city

What happened? Despite more than $2 billion in C4E funds and higher overall spending, city has cut school budgets about 14% since Maintenance of effort provision in C4E law was ignored (city cut funding to schools when state increased spending) Overcrowding in many schools worsened by growing enrollment & damaging co-locations. C4E state funding never reached full level & has now flat-lined or slightly decreased.

But even when state C4E spending increased; class sizes grew !

Why? administration had other priorities Between , while out-of-classroom positions grew by over 10 thousand, general ed classroom teachers shrunk by more than 1600.* In 2010, there were 2,000 fewer teaching positions and 18,000 more students. This year, there are 2,500 fewer teachers and 20,000 more students. Spending on testing, contracts, consultants, and more bureaucrats have all risen sharply. (including principals, secretaries, APs, literacy coaches, etc. NY Times, “With More Money, City Schools Added Jobs,” June 30, 2009).

But can we afford to reduce class size? In 2009, DOE estimated that it would cost $358 million per year to achieve average C4E class size goals across the city; DOE estimated it would cost $448 million per year in staffing to achieve class size goals in ALL schools; plus more in capital costs for school construction. This year, NYC is to receive more than $530 million in C4E funds.

What happened in D11?

What Happened in D11?

Other questions re city’s plan State ed allocated $530.8M in C4E funds to city this year. Yet city’s plan only includes $348M; what happened to rest of these funds? Why did the city choose not to centrally allocate a penny of C4E funds to class size reduction, given they had a legal obligation to lower class size ? Only C4E district-wide initiative that DOE claims as “class size reduction” is to expand CTT classes, which does not lower class size.

Problems with public process This year, C4E meetings happening too late in the school year; supposed to happen before money spent, so public can have input. This yr., SED asked to “pre-approve” plan; but state law says city’s plan should be submitted to state only after public hearings occurred, so that public comments can help guide decision as to whether plan needs changing. C4E law requires for borough hearings as well as CEC presentations; but DOE has refused to do this since See letter to Commissioner King from CSM & UFT, pointing out the many violations of law in public process this year.

What can parents do? Come to the CEC 11 hearing on Nov. 15 and make your voices heard! Ask your CEC or PTA to pass a resolution; we have a sample one for their consideration. Send comments to (deadline Nov. Submit C4E complaint to the state as per law, please fill out the handout and we will help. Send me information about class sizes in your schools. us at if you want to join our class size list for news and

Contractual limits vs. C4E class size goals UFT Contract limits C4E Class Size goals by 2011 Kindergarten grades 32 (DOE used to respect 28) (Title 1 Schools) (Non-Title 1) (Title 1 Schools) (Non-Title 1) (core classes)

NYC Building code for classroom space Requires 35 Sq. ft. per Kindergarten student, 20 Sq. ft. per student in grades 1-12 DOE’s “instructional footprint” redefined full size classroom downward with minimum 500 sq. ft. 500 sq. ft. legally holds only 14 Kindergarten students, 25 students in grades 1 st -12 th. Sq. footage of each room listed in Annual Facilities survey on every school’s DOE portal.