1. Save the date! On Wednesday June 19 we will hold our annual Skinny award dinner at Casa La
Femme on 140 Charles St. The honorees will be Attorney General Tish James for
her steadfast and courageous leadership in supporting public school students
and parents over many years; and NYC
Kids PAC, the only political action committee that rates
candidates on their positions on public education. Please reserve your ticket now -- for a
delicious three course dinner with wine and great company besides!
2. Last week, the Education Council Consortium and CEC 2 both passed resolutions in support
of our campaign to urge the City Council to allocate funding for class size
reduction in this year's budget. Please ask your CEC to do the same! We can
provide you with district-specific data if you like.
3. This week two important court
hearings will be held. Tomorrow, Wed. May 15 at 2:30 PM at the NY Supreme
Court, 60 Centre St., Rm. 418, Judge Arthur Engeron will hear a lawsuit vs the
city for redacting nearly the entire final City Hall decision memo that
we FOILed about how the DOE's formula for assessing school space would be
revised, and why the Mayor rejected the Blue Book Working Group's proposal to
align school capacity with smaller classes.
4. This Thursday May 16 at 11 AM,
Judge Katherine Levine will hear arguments on the DOE's proposal to close PS
25, a small zoned school in Bed Stuy. The hearing will take place at the Kings
Country Supreme Court in Brooklyn, at 360 Adams St. Last year PS 25 parents
sued and got a temporary restraining order against closing the school. I wrote
an open letter to Chancellor Carranza that
was published in the Washington Post Answer Sheet, asking him to withdraw this
proposal; obviously he did not.
5. Because of unconscionable
delays on the part of the US Department of Education in responding to parents'
FERPA complaints, Eva Moskowitz and Success Academy have once again violated
student privacy and federal law. An update on this long-running saga is here.
Talk to you soon, and please sign up for our Skinny dinner today!
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