Class size top parent concerns for fourth year in a row

For the fourth year in a row, ever since the DOE parent survey has been given, smaller classes are the top priority of parents among the ten choices offered.

Despite this fact, class sizes increased this year at an unprecedented rate, and are expected to increase next year as well.

They are larger now in nearly every grade than before the Campaign for Fiscal Equity case was settled, in which the state’s highest court said the class sizes in our public schools were too large to provide children with their constitutional right to an adequate education.

Perhaps that’s why parent satisfaction with the chancellor was more than thirty points lower than their satisfaction with teachers.

Clearly the chancellor is not listening to what parents want, and they realize that.