The Inconvenient Truth Behind Waiting For Superman

Maxwell High School Reps on WBAI – FM

Education On The Crossroads Show (WBAI 99.5fm) featured Maxwell High School (Brooklyn) UFT Delegate Seung Ok and two students. The three spoke eloquently and passionately in defense of the success of Maxwell. They denounced Mayor Bloomberg’s capricious attempts to close Maxwell and more than 21 other schools this year. Click on the title to hear … Continue reading →

Citywide Protest to Stop School Closings Planning Meeting – Tues. Jan.5 – 4:30 PM

Please broadly circulate, post and print. Get the word out. Public education is on the chopping block. Angel Gonzalez, GEM Citywide Protest to Stop School Closings Planning Meeting – Tues. Jan.5 – 4:30 PM CUNY Graduate Center 34th St & 5th Ave (Bring ID) – Room 5414 http://grassrootseducationmovement.blogspot.com/ ; http://ednotesonline.blogspot.com/ 718-601-4901 Grassroots Education Movement – … Continue reading →

Jamaica High School Represents! 700 Rally to Protest Closing!

CITY WIDE RALLY – Hands off our schools!!!

Thursday, JANUARY 21st !! At Bloomberg’s residence (It’s official) – stay tuned! A call out to all the 22 communities: students, teachers, parents, community members. Let’s show the mayor, that one man does not have all the answers. Let’s show him what true democracy is all about! Keep in touch with this blog for the … Continue reading →

Pressure the UFT: Build Citywide Protest to STOP Closings! Dec. 16 – 4 PM – UFT Delegate Assembly – 55 Bway

Maxwell High School – Forum Denounces Closure!

Click on title to view video.Dec. 9, ’09 Maxwell High School, Brooklyn. Part 2 – The Forum. Mayor Bloomberg announced the closing of over 20 public schools. The community voiced its outrage. Activists denounced this callous ploy to give away public school space to private charter schools. Over 250 people protested outside and then again … Continue reading →

Maxwell High School Rallies Against Closing – video #1

Click title to view video.Dec. 9, 2009 Brooklyn, NY. Mayor Bloomberg announced the closing of over 20 public schools. Maxwell High denounces this unfair callous attempt to privatize with charter schools. Over 250 people protested outside and then inside against the Dept of Education and the complicity of the District Superintendent. Teachers, parents, students and … Continue reading →

UFT Mulgrew Applauds Barron: "Shut Down Tweed"

(Click on title to see video.) 12-09-09 Councilman Charles Barron: we may have “to shut down Tweed [the Dept of Education]” if City persists in the unfair closing of public schools. UFT Pres. Mulgrew applauds Barron. At Maxwell High School 250+ protested their notice of closing. Build the movement to fightback citywide against the drive … Continue reading →

Maxwell HS Protests School Closing – Dec 9 ’09

GEM Leaflet on School Closings: Dec. 2009

“Stop Closings” GEM: Dec. 2009 http://d1.scribdassets.com/ScribdViewer.swf?document_id=23929917&access_key=key-25immj59jsly7183wkyl&page=1&version=1&viewMode=list