Letter to Mayor and Chancellor to fully fund seats in new capital plan

This letter was sent to the Mayor and Chancellor this week.  A press release is here; the Daily News reported on it  here. 

If you would like to support this campaign, please send an email directly to the Mayor and Chancellor by clicking here.

 

October 23, 2018

Dear Mayor de Blasio and Chancellor Carranza:

According to the DOE’s own data, more than 500,000 public school students are crammed into overcrowded NYC schools. The increased number of co-located charter school students in our district public school buildings has made the problem worse. Meanwhile, NYC’s overall population is growing fast; there is a residential building boom in every borough as well as rapidly increasing demand for the expansion of 3K and UPK programs.

Please fulfill the promise the Mayor made to fully fund the new five-year capital plan to be released this fall. That way, every school seat will be funded for which the DOE now projects a need, based on current overcrowding and projected enrollment growth.

Please also accelerate the process of school planning, siting and construction so that these seats are actually built within five years, rather than trailing further behind enrollment, so that our schools don’t become even more overcrowded in the years to come.

NYC children deserve no less.

Yours sincerely,

 

Chancellor’s Parent Advisory Council
NYC Education Council Consortium
Letitia James, NYC Public Advocate
Gale Brewer, Manhattan Borough President
Deborah Glick, NYS Assembly, District 66
Jo Anne Simon, NYS Assembly, District 52
Harvey Epstein NYS Assembly, 74th District
Robert Jackson, NYS Senator-elect District 31
Leonie Haimson, Executive Director, Class Size Matters
Celia Green, President, Citywide Council for High schools, President-elect CPAC
Lourdes I. Jibodh, President, District 8 Presidents Council
Marta Torres, co-President District 16 Presidents Council
Sabrina Singer, President, District 22 Presidents Council
Willie Jones Sr., Co-President, D27 Presidents Council, member, Community Education Council D27
Farah Despeignes, President, Community Education Council District 8
Maria Farley, President, Community Education Council District 14
Camille Casaretti, President, Community Education Council District 15
Lafleur Cumberbatch-Benjamin, President, Community Education Council District 17.
Jania Veal-Morris, District 15 Presidents Council
John Gavros, District 26 Presidents Council
Nicole Hammond, President, Community Education Council District 29
Shino Tanikawa, member, Community Education Council District 2*, former Blue Book WG co-chair
Nicole Campbell, President, District 18 Presidents council
Rosaline Garcia, District 10 Presidents Council, PS/MS 20 PA President
John Keller, member, Community Education Council District 2
Osariemen Elcock, District 23 Presidents Council Chair
Tonya Samuels, President, District 23 Community Education Council and President, Presidents Council
Minnelli Benjamin, District 21 Presidents Council and PTA President
Johanna Garcia, President, Community Education Council District 6
Josephine Ofili, Community Education Council District 9
Marvin Shelton, President, Community District Education Council 10
Ilka Rios, President, Community Education Council 12*
Valarie Lamour and Deborah Alexander, Co-Presidents, CEC District 30
Antonia Ferraro, Secretary, Community District Education Council 15
Sheree Gibson, District 29 Presidents Council
Veronica Clark, District 17 Presidents Council
Carmen Robles, Community Education Council District 6
Nicole Job, BK Borough President Appointee, Community Education Council District 17
Benjamin Richardson, President, District 28 Presidents Council
Constance Asiedu, President, Lunch 4 Learning Parent Caucus
Lorraine Bridges, Community Board 13, Education Committee
Rosemary Ofili, Community member and District 9 Parent Advocate
Jacqueline Ruiz, President, Presidents Council District 5
Leonard Silverman, Co-President, District 2 Presidents Council
Aishah Bruno, District 6 Presidents council, Treasurer
Orquidea Huerta, District 6 Presidents Council
Dr. Eduardo Hernandez, BxBPA, Vice-President, Community Education Council 8*
Dr. J. M. Cody, member, Community Education Council District 22
Sabina Omerhodzic, member, Community Education Council District 30
Luis Camilo, Recording Secretary, Community Education Council District 6
Douga Ba, member Community Education Council District 4* , IEP representative
Monique Lindsay, Brooklyn HS Presidents Council Alumni chair
Marco Battistella, member, Community Education Council District 1
Mirian Lopez, Vice President , Community Education Council District 14
Charles Star, Treasurer, Community Education Council District 15
Elena Romero, BP appointee, Co-VP, Community Education Council District 15
Naila Rosario, President, NYC Kids PAC
Elizabeth Velez, member, Community Education Council District 15
Mark Bisard, member, Community Education Council District 15
Amy Cheung, member, Community Education Council District 2
Emily Hellstrom, member, Community Education Council District 2
Maud Maron, member, Community Education Council District 2
(list in formation)

*For identification purposes only