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Thursday, November 4, 2010

NYC Public School Parents: Nov. 10 NYC Education Reform Retrospective agenda

NYC Public School Parents: Nov. 10 NYC Education Reform Retrospective agenda

Nov. 10 NYC Education Reform Retrospective agenda


I got forwarded two different items from two different third parties, including an invitation and the agenda for the Gates-funded NYC Ed Reform retrospectiveconference next week (see below for the agenda).

The invitation claimed (once again) that “The list of invitees includes researchers, practitioners, state policy makers and other stakeholders, both inside and outside NYC.”

The only NYC public school parents who are allowed to attend this invitation-only event are the five borough appointees on the Panel for Education Policy, originally with the excuse that there was no room for any others. For more on this, see our blog here.

Yet they have now extended the RSVP date several times, and also the invitations to a wider group as too few on the original list of invitees apparently signed up. They are also apparently inviting some reporters but