Talk out of School with Donald Nesbit, Exec VP of Local 37 and Political Action Chair DC 37

 

Check out my wide-ranging conversation with Donald Nesbit, the executive vice president of Local 372, which represents nearly 25,000 non-pedagogical staff in NYC public school. He's also the Political Action Chair of DC 37, NYC’s largest municipal union.

He spoke about the heroic work his members did during the school shutdowns, his view of current health and safety protocols in our schools, whether the DOE has done enough to brief his members on the benefits of vaccination, why DC37 was one of the first unions to endorse Eric Adams, NYC's likely next mayor, and what their position is on the charter school cap, among many other issues.

EPISODE NOTES

NY1, NYC phasing out separate gifted classes

NYTimes on Local 372workers: They Kept Schools Running as Covid Raged: ‘We Had to Be Here’

NY State & NYC Joint Education Committee Oct. 5 hearings on the city's spending of additional state and federal aid to schools

Class Size Matters testimony at the state hearings