Educating for Democracy: The People's Board of Education

Coalition for Public Education/Coalición por la Educación Pública:

Educating for Democracy: 

The People's Board of Education 

Joel Shatsky- Huffington Post

Seku Braithwaite starting the afternoon working groups session

Posted: 05/10/2012 

At an all-day meeting featuring panel discussions and break-out sessions, a group of parents, students, teachers and other educators met to propose an alternative to Mayoral control of the New York City public school system. Sponsored by the CPE (Coalition for Public Education) an education advocacy group, and held at the District 37 (AFSCME) building, the conference centered on strategies to establish a People's Board of Education as a way of giving parents of young learners in the public school system a decision-making voice in their children's education.

At the conference which featured a number of educational "true reform" activists such as Jitu Weusi, Benita Rivera, Sam Anderson, David Dubosz, and Brian Jones among many participants, several of them recalled the