Leonie Haimson: Educate All Kids Like Sasha and Malia
Obama’s education policies are failing children, except for his own.
BY Leonie Haimson
Now that Barack Obama has been re-elected president, it’s time that he start making good on the education issues he emphasized during his campaign. While in speeches and in ads the president seized on Romney’s statement that class size doesn’t matter, the truth is that Obama’s Education Secretary Arne Duncan has dismissed the importance of class size nearly as strongly. Worse yet, Duncan proposes cutting federal funds that districts can use to hire teachers at a time of sharp increases in class size.
BY Leonie Haimson
Rather than follow blindly in the path of privatization and unleashed free-market competition that led to the collapse of our economy, it’s time for Obama to start listening to parents and teachers. Cramming kids into classes of 30 or more and putting them on laptops while supervised by novices will never enhance their creativity or critical thinking skills.
Williamsburg/Greenpt Parents Fight Citizens of the World (Eva's Hubbie)
The Hearing to co-locate "Citizens of the World Charter Schools" in JHS126 is Wed., December 5 at 6pm (5:30 to speak).
PLEASE COME!!!! Enclosed is a version in English and a version in Spanish. PLEASE distribute! Send this to your friends and colleagues and urge them to attend. If there's one event in this district to come to that will help ALL of our schools, this is it.
The sustainability and health of all of our neighborhood public schools are at risk. The only reason the NYC DOE wants to co-locate this school in our district is because we have space in our