MORE/CTS/Parent Voices Members Featured in NY Times Article on Testing
“I want my school to use tests to help instruction, to help find out if kids don’t know fractions,” she said. “I don’t want my child to feel like her score will decide if her teacher has a job or not. -- NY Times articleExcellent NYT article on growing opt-out movement here in NYC where two groups, Change the Stakes (an outgrowth of GEM's testing committee that has taken on a life of its own) and Parent Voices are featured.
The Battle of New Orleans: Support Karran Harper Royal
New Orleans is ground zero in the war to privatize education. Remember Arne Duncan's "The best thing to happen to NO was hurricane Katrina."
I just sent Karran a hundred bucks after Diane's plea (below). Just watch this video of Karran I shot at SOS this past summer and you'll know why. Karran is part of a network of amazing parents associated with Parents Across America, which Leonie Haimson helped get going.
(By the way, Leonie is coming out to Rockaway this Monday to speak at the CEC 27 event. I will be there to tape it.)
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I just sent Karran a hundred bucks after Diane's plea (below). Just watch this video of Karran I shot at SOS this past summer and you'll know why. Karran is part of a network of amazing parents associated with Parents Across America, which Leonie Haimson helped get going.
(By the way, Leonie is coming out to Rockaway this Monday to speak at the CEC 27 event. I will be there to tape it.)
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Parents Sue SUNY Over Charter Authorization
We are suing SUNY Charter School authorizers and the NYC DOE! The deadline to sign on to the lawsuit is SUNDAY! Please email williamsburggreenpointschools@gmail.com to get a copy of the Retainer form.
Here's the info:
WAGPOPS! parents are officially launching a lawsuit against the NYC DOE and SUNY regarding their approval of Citizens of the World Charter Schools for District 14 (Williamsburg, Greenpoint, parts of Bushwick and Bed Stuy). WAGPOPS! (Williamsburg and Greenpoint Parents: Our Public
UFT Calls ATR Meetings in Response to Independent Organizing
---interesting how the UFT ATR meetings were announced the very day that atr's were having their own meeting! Very interesting in deed! --- a NYC ATRAs ususal, the UFT only responds when signs of revolt are brewing see NEST+M Teachers Meet With Mulgrew).
Here is the announcement of the ATR meeting this past Weds.
ATRs Meet Wed. Oct 10 5pm - Inform Atrs in your schools...
The UFT is a demilitarized zone where any signs of attempted militancy are buried.
