Whose Schools? Our
Schools!!
Parents, Students,
Teachers, Education Workers, & ConcernedCommunity Members of New
York City...Public education has been under assault by Mayor
Bloomberg and hisbig business partners who have turned hundreds of
billions of dollarsin public funds over to those seeking private
profits!
These attacks are
connected and affect all of us!!!For more than 10 years, Mayor
Bloomberg
-through his chancellors
and Panel for Educational Policy ( PEP ) -has turned a
deaf ear on the protest of parents, students, and educational
professionals giving them no say in what happens in public
schools.
For Parents this has
resulted in...
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Over 100 school closings
and counting.
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Forced co-locations and
the redirection of resources to Charter Schools who often don't serve
the same populations.
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Continued failure to
produce college ready high school graduates; only 13
%
are college ready for
Black and Latino students.
For students this
has resulted in...
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Increased class sizes and
budget cuts for in school and after school programs.
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Continued growth in use of
high stakes testing and endless test preparation.
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Narrowing of the
curriculum; loss of science, humanities, and other electives.
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Culturally unresponsive
curriculum that doesn't reflect your needs or concerns.
For teachers and educators
this has resulted in...
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Continued attacks on job
security and worker protections.
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Mass firings and school
shutdowns under the guise of "turnaround schools".
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Public shaming and
attacking of teachers using discredited teacher data reports
( TDR )
.
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Tying teacher evaluations
to high stakes test and arbitrary evaluation criteria.
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Continued disappearance of
Black and Latino teachers from the profession.
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Loss of professional
autonomy and the "de-professionalizing" of teaching.
It’s time to organize a
citywide fight -back to end Mayoral Control!We are coming
together to build a People’s Board of Education made up of
parents, students and educators. We can move forward united to
build a collaborative powerbase dedicated to a human
rights based education system for all of our children.
YES
WE CAN Build a People's Board of Education!!!
Join us at the First
People's Assembly for Public Education
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