Parent! Students! Teachers!Community members! JUST CAN’T WAIT
NYC SCHOOLS ARE OWED $2.5 BILLION DOLLARS!
New York State has abandoned the Campaign for Fiscal Equity, resulting in devastating classroom cuts every single year. This has meant the loss of arts & music programs, after-school, valuable teachers, guidance counselors, Advanced Placement courses, an increase in class sizes and more.
Join parents, elected officials, students to say #WeCantWait for the state to fund public schools!
* CITY HALL STEPS *
THURSDAY, SEPT. 18th, at 10AM
Take the 2, 3 to Park Place, or 4, 5, 6 to BK Bridge, or A, C to Chambers
Contact Maria Bautista, 212-328-9271, or maria@aqeny.org
Sincerely,
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Maria Bautista
Campaign Coordinator
Alliance for Quality Education
maria@aqeny.org
maria.nygps@gmail.com
P: 212.328.9217
C: 347.622.9706
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Yes, all out for the Sept 18 rally! The Campaign for Fiscal Equity(CFE)pursued the suit against NYS for 13 years, yes, 13 years, dogged and determined and finally winning in 2006 a judgement ordering NYS to pay NYC billions of withheld school funds which had always been legally due. NYS foot-dragged and then Cuomo just flushed the whole deal. NYC kids don’t count b/c so many of them are poor and dark-skinned.
Wherever affluent families send kids to affluent public school districts, the kids get what they need. Affluent parents in NYC who stick with their catchment or magnet public schools typically are asked by their PTAs for big donations to subsidize the public school allocation per student. This essentially creates yet a separate and unequal privileged “public school” unofficially over-funded compared to the others, in addition to the bogus private/public schools like Eva’s over-funded and under-regulated Success Academies. Kids who go to public schools in lower-income catchments lose out b/c their PTAs can’t ask parents to fork over hundreds of dollars(in some cases $1000). 100 years ago John Dewey called for over-funding public schools where children of workers went to make sure they got the extra they needed to catch up to the others. We’re still waiting.
The former paper of record located in NYC continues to function as an insider media source to promote the discredited Rhee and those who seek to dismantle public education in every neighborhood across America.
“David Brooks, op-ed columnist with the New York Times, will moderate the panel discussion between Daniels, Michelle Rhee, founder and CEO of Students First, and Richard D. Kahlenberg, senior analyst at the Century Foundation.”
http://www.jconline.com/story/news/college/2014/09/07/daniels-participate-education-panel/15258697/
No doubt Mitch Daniels will be an inspiring participant.
As Governor of Indiana, Mitch Daniels appointed Tony Bennett as State Superintendent of education. Bennett changed the report card of a charter school in Indiana run by Daniels’ wealthy contributor. This was the reason Bennett had to resign from the position he had taken in Florida.
While governor, Daniels stacked the board of higher ed, which at the end of his term appointed him head of Purdue University. While governor, he had sought to prohibit Howard Zinn’s work “A People’s History of the United States” from being taught any public universities in Indiana, particularly courses for teachers:
“He said that his concern about Zinn was appropriate because elementary and secondary school teachers were taking professional development courses at public universities that could have been teaching Zinn’s work, and he did not want these teachers — and their students — exposed to “falsifications” of history.”
So much for academic freedom.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/07/17/e-mails-reveal-mitch-daniels-governor-tried-ban-howard-zinn-book
Let’s nor forget that Lord Cuomo is now sitting on a $4+ BILLION DOLLAR surplus. No excuses left Andy!
The back space key didn’t work. Ann
Surprised the Alliance did not help support Teachout. Hopefully they made a deal with Cuomo and we will get the money we are owed.
Where are all of the NYCers? Get this info out there!!!
Arizona is owed $2.9 billion. The R candidate for governor wants to appeal it. The Dem, Fred Duval, wants the first installment of $131 million paid immediately.
How can we rally at a time when we are all supposed to be at school?