Real NYC Teacher Attendance at 11/17 Defend OWS Rally?

One of the most important nights of the semester in the teacher's calendar is Parent-Teacher night.

What were the United Federation of Teachers (New York City), and UFT President Michael Mulgrew thinking when it scheduled a major rally for Occupy Wall Street at a time that overlaps with what will be parent-teacher night for many grades? Couldn't they have scheduled the rally for next week, when this major scheduling conflict would not be an issue?

Participation for a large segment of teachers (and for OWS-supporting parents) will be lower with a rally time of 5:00 PM, Thursday, November 17,
at Foley Square (one block north of Chambers Street and the Municipal Building.
If you are not a teacher or parent in one of the affected categories,
BE THERE! (Subway directions in NYC Education Activism box at right.)

Download leaflet for Jan 16 Emergency Parents' Conference on School Closings

Emergency parent conference on

School Closings

at the School of the Future
127 East 22nd Street, take the 6 IRT local to E 23rd Street
9:30 AM - 1 PM

Click on the image or here on this text for the leaflet / flier.

Norman Siegel, the renowned civil rights and civil liberties lawyer, is among a confirmed speaker for the event.
Contact Renowned New York City education critic and activist Leonie Haimson at
classsizematters@gmail.com or call her: 212-674-7320
or Event Co-Chair Monica Major at
majorm766@gmail.com or call her: 347-664-6712

Download flier for January 21 demo at Mayor Bloomberg's mansion

Download here the GEM / CAPE flier for the Thursday January 21 demonstration at
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's townhouse residence at 17 East 79th Street
on the block between Fifth Avenue and Madison Avenue

The demonstration will rally outside the mayor's mansion from 4 to 6:30 PM
Join us in support of the students, parents, and teachers
at the 22 school communities affected by the proposed closings & charter takeovers.

WHY AT HIS RESIDENCE?
Because Bloomberg is closing our schools
which are the lifeblood of our communities.
We need to bring this issue to where he lives!

WHY DO WE DEFEND OUR SCHOOLS?
Because these schools are remarkably successful,
given budget cuts, overcrowding and the high
needs students they serve.

WHAT DO OUR SCHOOLS
NEED? More support and greater resources! They
should not to be closed down and replaced by boutique or
charter schools that exclude our neediest children.

WHAT MORE CAN WE DO?
Put on the pressure! Call and email the Mayor,
Chancellor Klein, your State legislators, your City council
member and members of the Panel for Educational Policy
(PEP). For contact info, go to: nycpublicschoolparents.
blogspot.com


The coalition behind the demonstration is broad; the flier is drafted by the Grassroots Education Movement (GEM) and the Red Hook, Brooklyn affiliate of GEM, Concerned Advocates for Public Education (CAPE)
SPONSORED BY: The Emergency Coalition to Stop School Closings; including parents, teachers, and
students at PS 15k, Jamaica HS, William H. Maxwell CTE (list is in formation). For detailed information
about the rally, keep up to date at these blog sites: http://grassrootseducationmovement.blogspot.com,
or email: gemnyc@gmail.com, call 718-601-4901, or go to www.capeducation.blogspot.com.

April activism events from Ed Notes

From Norm Scott's Education Notes Online:

Ed Events in NYC
April 7: 5pm at CUNY's Graduate Center, Fifth Avenue, between 34th Street and 35th Street, Rm 5414
Keep the ball rolling on building in the fight to save public education (ICE-UFT)

April 27: Conference on Charter Schools, location to be announced.

May 14: Rally to save public education