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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
GEM Meeting Tuesday, Dec. 7 at CUNY
Eleven more schools to be closed announced, more to come – Coming to a School Near You Increasing Class Sizes and Teacher Excessing- Are You … Continue reading
The latest list of the 55 schools potentially targeted for closing from the DOE
…. handed out at a briefing for elected officials after the release of the HS progress reports around 11/15/10. Click on the jpg below:
Fightback Fridays: Sheepshead Bay HS Rally to Save the School From Closing
The Sheepshead Bay HS community in Brooklyn held a rally to save the school on Nov. 19, 2010. It is worthy to note that a group of teachers from John Dewey HS which has been holding weekly Fightback Friday rallies came in support. One Sheepshead teacher, seeing the, broke into tears. Dewey is holding a … Continue reading
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