NYC Public School Parents: Dmytro Fedkowskyj on why he voted "No" on the 23 school closings

NYC Public School Parents: Dmytro Fedkowskyj on why he voted "No" on the 23 school closings:

Dmytro Fedkowskyj on why he voted "No" on the 23 school closings

by Leonie Haimson

Here is the statement made by Dmytro Fedkowskyj, Queens representative on the Panel for Educational Policy, before voting against the 23 school closings and numerous co-locations. The vote was 9-4, with the 8 mayoral appointees plus the Staten Island rep Diane Perrugia, voting lockstep in favor of each proposal by the DOE, and the borough representatives from the Bronx, Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens voting no. Perrugia voted with the mayor every time except for the proposal to close the one school on Staten Island, PS 14, in which case she voted no.

Students prepare and dream about their futures. Parents do what they can to help their children succeed.

photo: Anna Gustafson

Our Principals and Teachers dedicate themselves to their school communities in order to make their student dreams come true, but all too often their pleas for support to fix, not close their schools fall on deaf ears...these proposals confuse parents and decimate school communities...and something has to change.

Some of the schools on the agenda today were schools created by this administration, which means past proposals didn't

The Joke’s on Us

by Gary Babad

February 11, 2012 (GBN News): In a stunning development, GBN News has learned that Education Secretary Arne Duncan’s signature “Race to the Top” program was originally conceived as a practical joke on President Obama. According to a source in the Education Department, the Secretary was merely looking to embarrass the President after a particularly humiliating loss on the basketball court.

Apparently, Mr. Duncan never really expected to carry the hoax quite as far as it went. But, the source told GBN News, “Practically every state in the