BREAKING: Rally at NY Public
Library and March On Governor Cuomo's Office Tomorrow to Draw Hundreds of
Outraged Parents from All Over City
Elected Parent Leaders
from Citywide and Community Education Councils Across five boroughs Unite
Against Gov. Cuomo's Attacks on Public Education and Demand Fair Treatment of
Public School Students
In an unprecedented show
of unity, elected parent leaders and public education advocates from all five
boroughs will gather to say all kids matter and to protest the selling off of
public school buildings by Governor Cuomo and the State Senate leaders to the
charter school lobby, by giving preferential rights and funding to the 6% of
New York City students in charter schools while the needs of 1.1 million public
school students remain unmet.
WHEN: Thursday, April 10, at 4 PM.
WHERE: Steps of the NY Public Library, Fifth Ave. at 41st Street.
Following the rally participants will march to the Governor’s Office at 633
Third Avenue at 40th Street.
VISUALS: Parents, advocates, and students holding balloons, signs and
flashing fake money.
WHO: Council Education Chair Danny Dromm, State
Senator Bill Perkins, NAACP Head Hazel Dukes, former
Council Education Chair Robert Jackson, other Council Members,
parents, advocates and students, led by Community Education Councils and
Citywide Councils from all five boroughs, elected by parents to represent their
1.1 million public school children.
WHAT: Community Education Council members, parents, advocates, and
students, educators and elected officials protest how Governor Cuomo and
legislative leaders are creating a two-tiered education system, in which the
charter school lobby will now be given veto power over New York City’s public
school buildings, and any new or expanding charter will be provided free
on-demand public school space or private accommodations paid for by the city.
Meanwhile, public school students – a majority of whom sit in overcrowded
classrooms, buildings and trailers - have no such rights, and still wait
for the equitable funding from the State as promised by the state’s
highest court in the Campaign for Fiscal Equity decision.
Co-sponsored by Citywide
and Community Education Councils; Alliance for Quality Education (AQE);
Brooklyn New School PAC; Change the Stakes; Class Size Matters; ICOPE (Independent Commission on
Public Education); MORE; New York Communities for Change (NYCC); New York
Lawyers for Public Interest; NYCORE; NYCpublic.org; ParentVoicesNY; Parent
Leaders of Upper Eastside Schools (PLUS); Partnership for Student Advocacy;
Teachers Unite; Time Out from Testing, WAGPOPS (list in formation)
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