GothamSchools — daily independent reporting on NYC public schools

Days after the deadline for the city’s Department of Education to send class size data to the City Council, the department is giving itself a new deadline for the numbers’ release.

A spokesman for the DOE, Will Havemann, said department officials met with staff members of the City Council’s Education Committee this morning and showed them preliminary class size numbers. When the meeting ended, department officials took the data back with them.

“The numbers were shown to the Council this morning but not given to them,” Havemann said, adding that the department plans to release final numbers to the Council on November 23.

City Council spokesman Anthony Hogrebe said giving council members a brief look at a small amount of data did not qualify as meeting the department’s legal obligation to release class size information. (more…)