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Support The John Jay Campus at the PEP Wednesday, January 19th! Brooklyn Technical High School @ 4:30
Tell Cathleen Black, the PEP, and the Department of Education to Defend Public Education and to Stop the Historic Inequity of Black and Latino Schools. Images from John Jay Rally 1/11/11
Fight Back Friday!
Wear Black this Friday (1/21) and Take OUR Schools Back! http://www.fightbackfridays.blogspot.com/ To add your school to the growing list and to recieve a Fight Back Friday toolkit, email capeducation@gmail.com.
Stop School Closings and Charter Takeovers!
Support Paul Robeson High School! Stop School Closings! Sign their petition: http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/saveourschoolpaulrobeson/ Come to their Public Hearing on January 21st! Rally at 4:00. Sign up to speak beginning at 5:00. Hearing begins at 6:00. Support PS 9 and Stop Charter Takeovers!Sign their petition: http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/protectps9/ Come to their Public Hearing: Monday January 24th at 6pm at … Continue reading
Fightback Friday Informational Fliers for January 21, 2011
Download at:http://www.scribd.com/full/46864057?access_key=key-ptivdl0qry389dstkxw Fightback Friday Info Fliers for Jan. 21 http://d1.scribdassets.com/ScribdViewer.swf?document_id=46864057&access_key=key-ptivdl0qry389dstkxw&page=1&viewMode=list
Join Parents, Teachers, Students and Community: Defend Public Education
January 2011 Parents, Educators, Community Members, Council Members: The NYC Department of Education is refusing to help our struggling schools. Many are being closed. When schools are closed, other schools in the neighborhood become overcrowded which in turn tends to lower their performance making them targets for closure. Others are being invaded by corporate sponsored, non-union, non-public … Continue reading
Fight Back Friday: Wear Black and Take OUR Schools Back!
School Based Actions to Fight the Attacks on Public Education Friday, January 21st Join Public Schools Across the City to Advocate for Real Reforms that Will Transform our Public Schools. Press Conference @ 4:30 on the Steps of Tweed (52 Broadway in Manhattan) Stop the Attacks on Public Education: • Stop Closing Schools, Fix Them. … Continue reading
Stop the School Closings! Join the Rally January 27
*****FORWARD WIDELY****** Join a rally to…. Stop the school closings! Stop charter takeoversDefend public educationSay no to privatization Mayor Bloomberg’s Department of Education plans to close 26 more schools this year. Despite the DOE’s claim that these school closings are aimed at reforming schools, they have instead opened the door to privately-run charter schools and … Continue reading
School Closing Hearings – 2011
School Hearing Date Pep Vote Level Neighborhood District Boro Address 09X239 URBAN ASSEMBLY ACADEMY FOR HISTORY AND CITIZENSHIP FOR YOUNG MEN, THE 1/20/2011 2/1/2011 High Grand Concourse 9 Bronx 240 E 172nd St (Taft Campus) Frederick Douglass Academy III (middle school) 1/26/2011 2/3/2011 Middle Morrisania 9 Bronx 3630 3rd Ave PS 102 – Loretan 1/25/2011 … Continue reading
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