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The Inconvenient Truth Behind Waiting For Superman
GEM and Class Size Matters Produce Abridged Version of Advocacy Toolkit
Toolkit For Parents, Teachers, and Communities Educate * Organize * Mobilize Download the kit: http://www.scribd.com/full/41675726?access_key=key-2b6tixh0uuxrer7mqchp See the blog side panel for links to download of all advocacy documents and power points. CSM Advocacy Toolkit 2010 http://d1.scribdassets.com/ScribdViewer.swf?document_id=41675726&access_key=key-2b6tixh0uuxrer7mqchp&page=1&viewMode=list
Jane Addams Teacher Chronicles How NYCDOE Destroyed School With Poison Pill
Glenn Tepper gave this testimony at the GEM Oct. 26 meeting on school closings. With this narrative, I bear witness to how, within the span of a decade, a school can go from being so good as to be a finalist in the national New American High School competition, to being named by the New … Continue reading
John Dewey HS in Brooklyn, NY Initiates Fight Back Fridays
John Dewey HS Alumni Association web site: JDAA website: http://www.johndeweyalumni.org/ Threatened with being closed down after being fed a poison pill by the NYCDOE of having the very programs that have attracted generations of students eliminated, an influx of students from other large high schools in Brooklyn and budget cuts, the John Dewey school community … Continue reading
Not Making the Grade by Julie Cavanagh at the Huffington Post
Julie Cavanagh is a member of GEM and CAPE Julie Cavanagh Special Education Teacher in Red Hook, Brooklyn Posted: November 4, 2010 02:52 AM I have always found report cards to be a double-edged sword. On one side, they increase my opportunity to interact with parents because they are part of an age old system … Continue reading
Organize UFT Chapters, PTAs & Students to Fight Back Locally & Citywide!!
GEM continues to protest against all school closings and their subsequent takeover or invasion by private charter schools. At Chancellor Klein’s sham “school closing & charter co-location hearings” or at his rubber-stamp Panel for Educational Policy – PEP (Bloomberg controlled), GEM is there to speak about the futility of just presenting favorable data, pleading, petitioning … Continue reading
3 Transformations
Colleagues, It is about time that we create a Movement for 3 Great Transformations in Public Education: Transforming Public Education, Transforming Public School/Public Education Governance, and Transforming our Union. Transforming Public Education VS Charter Schools The politicians allied with the billion-dollar corporations, private universities and the corporate-embedded media are selling poor urban school districts charter … Continue reading
GEM Points of Unity
Posted Oct. 26, 2010 Points of Unity: Grassroots Education Movement WHERE WE STAND: We support public education and reject the assumption that the private sector can more effectively provide public services. A democratic society is dependent upon the success of its public education system. Attacks on public education undermine democracy. In order to create a … Continue reading
GEM General Open Meeting on School Closings: Tuesday, Oct. 26
**** please forward widely **** School Closings An Educational Solution or a Political Attack on Public Education? Tuesday, October 26 4:30-7 pm CUNY Graduate Center 34th and 5th Ave. Room 5414 (Bring ID) Trains: N, R, D, F, Q, B, W, V, 6, 1/2/3 Grassroots Education Movement gemnyc@gmail.com http://www.grassrootseducationmovement.blogspot.com · What is the impact of … Continue reading
Video of District 3 Press Conference Over HSA Invasion at PS 145
On 10/19/10 the District 3 Community Education Council (CEC3) held a press conference at PS 145 that included members of CEC 3, parents, teachers and students from PS 145 and elected officials who stood unanimously against the DoE’s plan to give space at PS 145 to Eva Moskowitz’s and Harlem Success Academy Charter School (HSA). … Continue reading
GEM’s Julie Cavanagh at The Huffington Post
Julie Cavanagh Special Education Teacher in Red Hook, Brooklyn Posted: October 19, 2010 05:28 PM BIO Become a Fan Wagging my Finger While my Boss Wags the dog http://www.huffingtonpost.com/julie-cavanagh/wagging-my-finger-while-m_b_763483.html I recently found myself reflecting on a class I took in college that examined emotional and behavioral disabilities. One of the behavior modification methods discussed was … Continue reading
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