I just made a contribution to the #EdWalk for CFE, to honor a group of parents, students, and educators who are walking from New York City to Albany to call attention to the legislature’s failure to fund the public schools equitably, as a state court ordered long ago. Please show your support, with any amount: $5, $10, $20, whatever you can afford.
A message from Marla Kilfoyle, executive director of the BATs, about the #EdWalk for CFE.
10 years ago, parents won a landmark case by proving that the State of New York was failing to provide a basic education to our kids.
A decade later, schools across New York state have still not received the money they are owed. All schools are suffering, with Black, Latino and low-income districts facing the worst inequities.
The Campaign for Fiscal Equity (CFE) lawsuit was filed in 1993 by New York City parents, alleging severe underfunding of public schools in communities of color and low-income communities. The state’s highest court, The Court of Appeals, rendered its final ruling ordering the state to add billions of funding to city schools.
The governor and legislature at the time provided a statewide solution, committing to infuse $5.5 billion, of classroom operating aid, also known as Foundation Aid, over the course of four years. The state provided two years of this funding, then in 2008 when the financial crisis hit, the aid not only stopped, but the legislature also did hurtful cuts to budgets. Generations of students have gone through school without realizing the full benefits of the CFE since the funding has been inadequate.
After the 2016-17 state budget did not include adequate levels of Foundation Aid, parents and advocates across the state made the decision that we needed to bring a new level of moral urgency to demand that the state stop letting generations of students graduate without realizing their full potential. We decided that it was our time.
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http://action.aqeny.org/edwalk/
Diane Ravitch's blog 
This governor sees everything in terms of what money can he wring out of it. No surprise that he favors the charter industry that sends money his way over the public schools that require billions without sharing with him.
If there was ever any doubt as to his world view, just look at how he referred to the passenger train involved in this weekend’s derailment on Long Island:
“It appears that the work train was violating the space from the revenue train, that the work train was overlapping into the clearance area of that train and that’s what caused the side swap and that’s what caused the derailment,” said Cuomo, who visited the Nassau County site of the accident with MTA Chairman Thomas Prendergast and other officials.”
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/cuomo-lirr-derailment-caused-work-train-violation-article-1.2823791
Who calls a passenger train a “revenue” train?
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Has Hillary taken a position on this issue?
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IMO, Clinton’s opinion is wobbly. The Trump/Pence position is clear. They support the tech industry’s elimination of democracy. And, they want businesses to own the most important common good, public education, so that there is unfettered profit-taking, at the expense of students, communities and taxpayers.
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