From: “Greg Basta, NYCC”
Subject: She is FED UP with Cuomo!
Date: March 7, 2014
Join Zakiyah’s Fight! Click Here To Sign The Petition Demanding Governor Cuomo Fully Fund Public Schools in NY State
I’m angry! Governor Cuomo claims to be the “students’ lobbyist,” but his actions tell a different story. For the last four years, he has severely underfunded New York’s public schools leaving public school students with limited opportunities and diminished abilities to compete. Then, just this week he vowed to divert funding to privately-run charter schools, which make up only 3% of the student population in the state. He cannot call himself the students’ lobbyist when he has ignored the needs of 97% of the students in this state.
We need a Governor that will serve ALL students, not just 3%. I’ve created a petition that is calling for the Governor to fulfill his constitutional obligation to all students by fully and fairly funding public schools. Click here to sign!
For the last four years, Governor Cuomo has kicked our public schools around like a soccer ball. He has forced them to make painful decisions, like having to choose between offering music classes or Kindergarten. This is absurd! Schools shouldn’t have to choose between the very basics and students shouldn’t be missing out on vital opportunities. It seems that Governor Cuomo is more concerned about appealing to his re-election campaign donors, like the Wall Street backers of privately-run charter school, than the students of New York who he claims to be a lobbyist for.
I will not stand idly by while he undercuts the future of a generation of students! Will you join me in holding him accountable to his constitutional obligation to educate every student? Sign the petition.
In solidarity,
Zakiyah Ansari,
Advocacy Director of the Alliance for Quality Education
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Done and shared. Thanks for this petition. Cuomo will not be getting my vote in any future election. Maybe he can get his benefactor, Eva, to vote twice.
I’m very glad you posted this, thanks!
When I signed this morning, there were only 800+ signatures; 4:30 almost 2,000!
Keep it going—send it to all your friends and anyone who cares about public education. I did.
Nor can he cave my vote…voted for him the last time, but never again…
We need a governor that is guided by moral and ethical principles…rather than Cuomo.
“Hello, I’m governor Andrew Cuomo. For all of us there is nothing more important than our children, and their education is everything. While the state’s new Common Core curriculum is headed in the right direction, testing on it is premature, it creates anxiety, and it’s just unfair. I won’t let our children’s scores count against them. Please tell your legislator to join me in protecting our children because education is about helping kids, not hurting them.”
From the two-faced, hypocrite/demagogue himself (a recent TV campaign ad).
Eviscerates school budgets for years; caps the property tax and now he wants to pretend that “nothing is more important than our children; their education is everything.”
He now bills himself as the great protector of our children.
My apologies if reading this ad quote made your skin crawl, or like me, you had to take a shower immediately after viewing it.
petition signed.
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Students with disabilities are also entitled to a free appropriate public education. We need 2000 New Yorkers to care.
Please sign our petition.
http://www.change.org/petitions/new-york-governor-support-language-in-the-2014-15-nys-budget-to-extend-annual-school-aid-growth-to-tuition-rates-for-special-act-public-school-districts-and-853-schools-serving-school-age-students-with-disabilities?recruiter=20653765&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=share_email_mobile