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Fightback Friday Informational Fliers for January 21, 2011
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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
Rally to Support John Jay High School
Join the John Jay High School Campus as we FIGHT for our SCHOOL! We Demand: Equal Funding and Resources for ALL students in the John Jay building. No Scanners! Our Students are not criminals! End Apartheid Education – INTEGRATE JOHN JAY NOW! No Co-Location in the John Jay building. January 11, 2010 Protest 5:00-6:00 pm Public Hearing: … Continue reading
Join the Coalition to Stop School Closings and Charter Invasions!
Join Us On January 5th @ 5pm:CUNY Graduate Center(34th St and 5th Ave)Room 5409Fight Backs for the months of January and February are being planned. Schools on the Closing and Transformation Lists and Schools facing Charter Invasions are encouraged to attend. Lend your voice to the movement to Stop School Closings. Stop Charter Invasions. Defend … Continue reading
It is Time to FIGHT BACK!
All are welcome to join an Ad Hoc Organizing Meeting to fight back against:-school closings-charter invasions and privatization-school transformations/restructuring Tuesday, December 21st5pmCUNY Graduate Center(34th St and 5th Ave)Room 5409 You are invited to help build this major campaign. Bring your ideas to this planning meeting. We will plan mobilizations to the Mayor’s PEP meetings, to … Continue reading
Join GEM at the Panel for Educational Policy Meeting December 14 at Brooklyn Tech
HELP STOP THE ATTACKS OF The Education DeformersOn Teachers, Parents and Children Join the Grassroots Education Movement and the Real Reformers as they battle to end the status quo of mayoral control, the degrading of the teaching profession, the misuse and manipulation of data to close schools, the marginalization of parent, educator, and student voices, … Continue reading
Sing Along With GEM
“which side are you on”, (listen to pete seeger sing it here) Which side are you on Gather round good teachersListen to my taleOf how the ole DOEPut our schools up for sale Which side are you on? Which side are you on? Which side are you on? Which side are you on? In nations … Continue reading
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