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Take your Child to Real Life Day | A Form Letter for May 1st
Here’s a template letter explaining why your child ["Student"] won’t be in school this Tuesday! Feel free to use it, and then join us at Fort Greene Park for the May 1st HS Student WALKOUT Convergence! Dear School teachers and staff, Student won’t be in school on May 1 because she/he will be participating in [...]
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Paul Robeson Students Call for May 1st HS Student Walkout (UPDATED)
**See updates BELOW The student government at Paul Robeson HS have called for a city-wide HS Student Walkout on May 1st, in a video posted yesterday to youtube: Here’s the statement attached to the video: Join us on May 1st as we stand in solidarity with the Occupy movement and workers everywhere. FACEBOOK EVENT PAGE:https://www.facebook.com/events/192822994163133/ [...]
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Occupy the DOE statement on February 9th School Closures Vote
Cross-posted from the NYCGA Community Relations Blog On February 9th at Brooklyn Tech High School, more than 2,000 parents, students and teachers voted “No Confidence” in the Panel for Educational Policy (PEP), a rubber-stamp for Michael Bloomberg’s undemocratic and racist system of mayoral control over New York City’s public schools. In complete indifference to the [...]
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We are building a coalition.
This is an email letter – does anybody call them “letters” anymore? – I wrote to the ODOE group this morning… Friends – I woke up this morning with MIC CHECKS still echoing in my head, my fingers twinkling and the palpable energy of last night’s meeting still sizzling inside me. We are coming together. [...]
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This is Why I Occupy
Far from the majestic columns of Wall Street, tucked between a bodega and an aged brownstone, sits Paul Robeson High School. A portly entrance towers over the single-family Brooklyn row houses that flank the fortress, a once-proud bastion of public education in an increasingly-downsized district. Mike Bloomberg reminisces about the days when he wrangled power away from [...]
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Occupy The PEP
IT’S TIME TO OCCUPY THE PEP THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9TH, 5:30PM Brooklyn Technical High School, 29 Fort Greene Pl (between Fulton and Dekalb) in Brooklyn Near the Nevins 2/3/4/5 or the Dekalb B/D/N/Q/R Facebook Event: http://www.facebook.com/events/104521729674642/ Background On Thursday, February 9th, the Panel for Educational Policy (PEP) will hold an open meeting and then a vote to close [...]
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#OccupyTheDOE – Sunday, January 8
OCCUPY THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION! The Fight for Quality Public Education for the 99% PARENTS! STUDENTS! TEACHERS! Join us Sunday, January 8, 2012 Are you in a school facing closure? Charter Co-Location? Or are you a parent, teacher, or student FRUSTRATED at the lack of democracy in NYC Public Education under mayoral control? Closing Schools has FAILED as [...]
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Department of Education: #Occupied
Mic check! Mic check! Who’s schools? Our schools! The audience was alive last night at a special meeting of the Panel for Educational Puppetry. On the agenda: a Conversation with the Chancellor about the Common Core Standards, a Gates-funded initiative to remove any remaining local control from the development of classroom curriculum in NYC. Even [...]
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Is anyone listening?
Note: I refer to each person in this article by first name, not out of disrespect but rather a neutral respect. It is the same respect I demand of my students, who call me by my first name and nothing else in our classroom. Another PEP meeting has ended, and everyone’s gone home. If there [...]
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SPEAK OUT AGAINST SCHOOL CLOSINGS & CO-LOCATIONS | June 21 at 1:30 PM | NY SUPREME COURT
ACTION ALERT: SPEAK OUT AGAINST SCHOOL CLOSINGS & CO-LOCATIONS JOIN THE NEW YORK CITY PARENTS UNION TOMORROW, JUNE 21, OUTSIDE OF NEW YORK SUPREME COURT, 60 CENTRE STREET, AND LET YOUR VOICES BE HEARD ON HOW THE SCHOOL CLOSINGS AND CO-LOCATIONS WILL AFFECT YOUR CHILDREN. WHO: NEW YORK CITY PARENTS UNION WHAT: SPEAK OUT ON [...]
