Taking Back OUR Schools Rally & March – NYC Metro
Calling all NYC Metro community activists – families, students, civil rights advocates, voters, immigrant families, policymakers and legislators, union members, teachers, and faith leaders…
Save Our Schools along with Change The Stakes, Movement of Rank and File Educators (MORE), Save Our Schools March New Jersey, Long Island Opt Out, New York Allies for Public Education, Our Children Our Schools Coalition, Bad Ass Teachers (BATS) , Time Out From Testing, Coalition for Public Education, Students United for Public Education (SUPE), Radical Women, Lace To The Top, Several NYSUT/NEA local chapters (ex. Port Jefferson TA), Stop Common Core in NYS, Parents Across America, Students Not Scores, Community Voices Heard, United Parents in Highbridge, and the Alliance for Quality Education is sponsoring a NYC Metro Rally and March on May 17, 2014.
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This rally and march is part of the national Testing Resistance & Reform Spring campaign. We aim to support the efforts of parents, teachers and community members to have public schools that work for the community.
Some of those speaking will be Brian Jones, Carol Burris, Raging Grannies, Joe Rella and Ken Mitchel (local superintendents), representatives of parents groups and BATS. Others invited to speak include Diane Ravitch, Jonathon Kozol, Leticia James, Leonie Haimson, Zakiah Ansari (parent) and Stephanie Rivera (SUPE).
Our Vision:
Creating & sustaining a public school system that provides a fully funded equitable community based education for every child. Decisions about our children’s schooling must be made democratically by families and professional educators free of corporate and political intervention.
Our Mission:
Educate teachers, parents, students and communities on the dangers of corporate driven reform that leads to privatization, high stakes testing , mandated curriculum, unfair teacher evaluation practices, and school closures.
Our Goals:
Motivate people to act on behalf of children to receive a quality equitable education.
Bring together various communities to work on resisting nation corporate reform policies.
Restore the joy of learning.
Involve mainstream and alternative media coverage of vision, mission, and goals.
Let corporations know that we will resist their efforts to privatize and control public education.
Assure authentic classroom based assessment that informs teaching and learning; end high stakes testing.
Assure locally developed curricula that honors local languages and cultures while addressing the unique needs of special education students, English language learners, and the poor and children of color who have been marginalized into a second tier system of education; end common core standards
Ensure privacy of student data – end inBloom
Establish universal high quality preschools, taught by early childhood experts, and available to all children as part of their public education.
Stop EdTPA – States are outsourcing the evaluation of student teachers to Pearson. This allows a private for-profit company to determine how our children will be taught and by whom.
Wrap around services for every neighborhood public school, including: counselors, social workers,
psychologists, and health care workers.
Strengthen neighborhood schools, assure high quality schools in every neighborhood; resist
charter schools and vouchers.
Audience:
Community activists, families, students, civil rights advocates; target voters, public officials, and other policy makers.
Join us on May 17, 2014 in NYC!
City Hall Park (permit pending)
2:00 p.m.
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For further information contact:
David Greene 914-523-5835 dcgmentor@gmail.comRosalie Friend: rfriend@mindspring.com
Teacher & Staff Appreciation Week – Stand Up for Them: May 5th-9th
Our Love > Corporate Reform Dear Friends, Colleagues, and Supporters of Public Education, Our public schools are filled with heroes who continually step up for the children and communities they serve. Just look at the teachers of Saucedo Academy; the loving and courageous Antoinette Tuff and Kaitlyn Roig; the dedicated school personnel across the snowy Southeast; or the pure humanity of Jennif
Maryland Teachers Dress as Clowns to Protest Testing “Stop clowning around with education. That is the message a group of Baltimore City Public School teachers are trying to send and they’re willing to get a little silly to get your attention. You may have seen them at the intersection of North Avenue and Calvert Street — a few teachers in plain clothes and a couple more dressed up as clowns. “
