Events
4 Simple Steps to Stop Cuomo Damaging Education Proposals!
Here are 4 simple steps you can take to stop Gov. Cuomo’s damaging education proposals. Click the links below to download the flyer in English and spanish. 4 Steps to Stop Cuomo- Download PDF 4 Pasos para Parar Cuomo- Descargar PDF
[Event] Please join us to protect our schools on Thursday March 12, Sign-up here!
Our public schools are under attack. We ask that you join with us in a citywide event on Thursday, March 12, either before or after school, and ask fellow parents, students, teachers and other school staff, to form a ring around your building to symbolically protect your school. Outside NYC, these symbolic actions are taking place on […]
Please contact Congress to improve ESEA/NCLB!
The House version of the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act, also known as NCLB, will likely be voted on this week. The Senate version is currently being negotiated in committee. So this is the time to let your elected representatives in Congress know what you want the final law to say. Please send […]
EVENT: Join the Movement Against a Test-Obsessed System: A Working Strategy Session with Diane Ravitch
On Wednesday, January 21st, 2015, join the movement against a test-obsessed system and come to a working strategy session with a presentation by Diane Ravitch followed by Breakout Action Groups. See the flyer below for more details.
2014 “Skinny” Awards Dinner! Please buy your ticket today!
On Monday, June 9 we will be holding our annual “Skinny” award dinner, to honor three extraordinary individuals who have given us the real “skinny” about our public schools. Our honorees this year are Liz Phillips, principal of PS 321 in Brooklyn, Carol Burris, principal of South Side HS on Long Island, and Patrick Sullivan, […]
Ask the Report and Advisory Board Review Commission not to eliminate reporting on class size and TCU’s
The DOE’s Report & Advisory Board Review Commission is supposed to decide which legally-mandated reporting requirements should be eliminated. The Commission has a majority of mayoral appointees and has the authority to override city law. DOE proposed the elimination of the November class size report and the annual report on TCUs or school trailers, earlier […]