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We found these useful at community events collecting signatures, and some people started asking for them. Email gemynyc@gmail.com for a a printout of the text and the easiest instructions in the world. VERY IMPORTANT TO COME TO CITY HALL FOR THE PRESS CONFERENCE on Monday, Aug. 10th, 12 noon. The Bloomberg’s machine is swamping the … Continue reading
Report of a charter hearing in Brooklyn — D22
There has been much talk in the blogs and listservs about the sham hearings taking place on new charters seeking a foothold in public school buildings. We reported what happened over at the District 4 hearing (July 29th) in this post and in this one. GEM will continue to publish reports of the questionable and … Continue reading
CPE exposes the media hype on mayoral control
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE THE COALITION FOR PUBLIC EDUCATIONPress Conference on the steps of City HallMonday, Aug. 10th, 12 noon CPE is holding a press conference to expose that Mayor Bloomberg and his media friends are giving us the false impression that Mayoral Control is the current rule of law for our public schools. As of … Continue reading
Parent to Chancellor: What’s going on?
GEM received a copy of a letter that a concerned Bronx parent wrote to the Chancellor back in July. We continue to be dumbfounded as to why letters like this have to be written at all in a public system of education. Joel Klein is not asleep at the helm. He knows what’s going on … Continue reading
Something to print out, sign, and send in
The Senate voted to renew mayoral control for another six years this morning with the addition of four amendments, but the bill they passed won’t become law until the Assembly votes on the same four amendments. Presumably that will happen when the legislature comes back into session next month. Senator Perkins, one of the eight … Continue reading
More on the District 4 charter school "hearing"
Last Wednesday’s “hearing” in El Barrio/East Harlem on the Hyde Leadership and Mott Hall charter school proposals was attended by more than 40 people, most of whom showed up to protest placing these new schools into District 4 public school buildings. We wrote about some of what occurred at that meeting yesterday. Since minutes weren’t … Continue reading
Charter school testimony — this time Staten Island
See this Ednotes post for more on this hearing. The following is the testimony of long-time educator Loretta Prisco at the Charter School hearing in Staten Island last night. I don’t think there were any formal documents such as this submitted in the Charter School hearing I attended last week in District 4 (see our … Continue reading
Charter school hearings: a study in evasion and ambiguity
Maybe they’re called for in law, but the one I went to last Wednesday in District 4 was a flimsy affair. Here is what I found on the charter school hearing law (underline mine), and someone can correct me if I’m mistaken: And this is why it is a sham: We were not told when … Continue reading
Tell Albany "No" to mayoral control
Enraged and discouraged parents, teachers and constituents are making it very clear they don’t want mayoral control to be renewed. They’ve been on the streets, they’ve been blogging and writing letters to the papers, they’ve made phonecalls, and now they’re writing to Senator Perkins. You can always write him something in your own words, but … Continue reading
Senator Bill Perkins on WBAI
Four audio clips of State Sen. Bill Perkins with Basir Mchawi Part I — Albany, 32/30 Dems in the majority; mayoral control positions explained Part II — mayoral control as negotiated so far is effectively not yet changed; school boards elsewhere, not in NYC; no-bid contracts, consultants, and mayoral control Part III — decreases in … Continue reading
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