Fight Back Friday! Stand Up For Public Educatio

NO CUTS!  NO LAYOFFS!

Friday, May 20^th

 Join Public Schools Across the City

Let your voice be heard: sign a post card, call your city council member

get involved at: www.fightbackfridays.blogspot.com/

or e-mail sam@nycore.org for a toolkit

WANTED:

 $350 Million

To save 6,000 teaching positions, 4,700 through lay-offs

Billions FOUND…

Bloomberg’s Budget Spends:

·      More than $700 million in 2011-2012 on charter schools

·      $542 million in new technology

·      Hundreds of millions on testing

Cost of layoffs for our students:

·      Dramatic class size increase

·      Less safe schools

·      Less help for struggling students

·     Less time for teacher/parent communication

Did you know?  A small surcharge for city earners making $175,000 or more would yield $450 million in revenue.

(Independent Budget Office, City of New York).

Tell Bloomberg and the DOE to stop wasting our money

and start prioritizing education!

Make the wealthy and the banks pay their fair share!

Sponsored by the Fight Back Friday Committee

(CAPE, ICE, GEM, NYCoRE, PPM, TJC, TU)