NYC’s Largest Parent Group Responds to Mayor’s State of the City Address
(New York, NY – January 12, 2012) – Mayor Bloomberg delivered his State of the City address at Morris High School in the Bronx today, including several thousand words on education. Parent leader Zakiyah Ansari of the Coalition for Educational Justice released the following statement in reaction.
“Nearly every student in City public schools today started school under Mayor Bloomberg. These are our children and Bloomberg has run out of time, spin and excuses. All the kids in our schools are ‘Bloomberg’s Kids’; all the results are his to own. Until he makes serious changes and begins listening to parents, he will be ‘Mayor 13%’—the mayor who prepares just 13 percent of Black and Latino students for college.”
“As I listened to the Mayor’s speech today, my hope was that he was going to take real leadership and