Every year, as part of its customer service, the New York City Department of Education asks parents what they would like to see changed.
Every year since the question has been asked, parents have chosen as their top priority: Reducing class size.
In 2007, when the survey was initiated, the Mayor minimized parent concerns by lumping together all other choices as if they were one, to say that parents had many concerns.
This year, when the Department presented its slide show of the results, it left “class size” out of the slide.
Wonder why.
The Huffington Post article linked in the first sentence is nearly an exact copy of the post on the NYC Parent blog in the second link.
Thanks to Leonie Haimson, parent advocate, who is a tiger on the subject of class size.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Thanks for pointing this out, Diane; it is also important to note that class sizes have risen every year since the survey was first given, because of Bloomberg policies and his entire disregard of parent priorities and the research showing that class size reduction has a host of benefits, including boosting learning and narrowing the achievement gap..
Lies, damned lies, and customer service …
Love that!!
What was most frightening in the article was that 14 % wanted more test prep. Bloomberg will hear that loud and clear.
From the standpoint of class, class size apparently doesn’t matter in public education.
The Walnut Head Homunculus has as much commitment to public education as the Penn State Board of Trustees does to management for child safety.