Tired of the education deform onslaught against parents, students and teachers? Get Involved!

There are many opportunities to work for REAL education reform.  Here are two:


1.  Sign this petition to deny Cathleen Black a waiver to become our new Chancellor. It is a reasonable request that the leader of our schools has a deep  knowledge of teaching and a respect for students, parents, educators and school communities!

2. Protest Michael Bloomberg and Joel Klein`s puppet school board, the Panel for Educational Policy. 

This administration  has overseen the school-closing assault and promoted other attacks on our public school system, including:
 

•  Increasing the number of charter schools colocated with our public schools, causing increased overcrowding.
•   Cutting school budgets while NOT providing the support schools need to help students.
•  Promoting the use of standardized testing as the only method of evaluating students progress and teachers effectiveness.
•  Threatening to publish teachers test scores, despite scandals exposing the tests as inaccurate and flawed.
•  Increasing the number of quality teachers in the excessed ATR pool who are denied seniority rights.

 
 
 This will be the first of an ongoing series of actions to protest the disastrous educational policies that are trying to dismantle public education
 Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Meet at 5:30pm
Brooklyn Technical High School29 Fort Greene [Place] Brooklyn, NY 11217
[G train to Fulton (at So. Portland Av.); C to Lafayette Av. (at So. Portland Av.); Q, R or weekday B to Dekalb Av. (at Flatbush Av. Extension); 2, 3, 4, 5 to Nevins St. (nr. Fulton St.); D, N to Pacific St./Atlantic-Pacific (on 4th Av.); LIRR to Atlantic Ctr./Flatbush Av.; map: http://bit.ly/cInRhJ -t.]