Bloomberg’s Four-Step Strategy To Kill a School
Juan Pagan, parent leader at Legacy HS and a member of the Citywide Council on HS, gave this eloquent speech at yesterday's press conference in Foley Square:
It is beyondme how Mayor Bloomberg refers to himself as the “Education Mayor” when hiseducational reform policy is nothing more than a four-step strategy to killschools.
Bloomberg’s Four-StepStrategy To Kill a School:
1) ATTACK THEBODY OF OUR SCHOOLS
Devastateschools with years of budget cuts. Overwhelm the most struggling schoolsdisproportionately (like it did to Legacy High School) with large numbers ofstudents with high needs without resources, even as the cutbacks continue. Useflawed and fabricated data to wrongfully justify closing and phasing outschools. Overwhelm teachers with overcrowded classrooms, no resources, anddemand optimum results, and then wrongfully punish them for doing their best.
2)CONTAMINATE THE LIFEBLOOD OF OUR SCHOOLS
Teachers arethe lifeblood of our schools. Release Teacher Data Reports with flawed andinaccurate data and with
CDEC 30 in Queens passes the Texas resolution against high-stakes testing!
On March 15, 2012, CommunityDistrict Education Council 30 in Queens unanimously approved the following Resolution insupport of the Clear Creek (TX) Independent School District’s Resolution regardinghigh stakes testing. More than forty school districts in Texashave passed this resolution, and now the movement is spreading to NYC!
Message from CDEC30: We hope other Councils will consider passing asimilar resolution.
RESOLUTION #79
(IN SUPPORT OF CLEAR CREEK INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT(STATE OF TEXAS, COUNTY OF GALVESTON)
RESOLUTION CONCERNING HIGH STAKES, STANDARDIZED TESTING OF TEXAS PUBLIC SCHOOLSTUDENTS
PASSED AND APPROVED FEBRUARY 27, 2012
RESOLUTION CONCERNING HIGH STAKES, STANDARDIZED TESTING OF TEXAS PUBLIC SCHOOLSTUDENTS
PASSED AND APPROVED FEBRUARY 27, 2012
RESOLUTION CONCERNING HIGH STAKES, STANDARDIZEDTESTING
OF NEW YORK STATE PUBLIC SCHOOL STUDENTS
OF NEW YORK STATE PUBLIC SCHOOL STUDENTS
WHEREAS,the over reliance on standardized, high stakes testing as the only assessmentof learning that really
