Grassroots Education Movement

GEM NYC focuses on the equality and quality of public educational services as well as the rights of teachers and school workers.

Too many current corporate and government policies seek to underfund, undermine and privatize our public school system. As the attacks on public education and teachers grow more vicious, the collective organization of those who directly face these attacks at the grassroots level becomes all the more essential, and in fact constitutes the most effective potential resistance.

GEM advocates for a positive vision of education reform by building alliances with other activist groups and organizing and helping coordinate the struggle at the grassroots school and community level, with a focus on school-level organizing.