[BwayDems] Fwd: Rally/March to Hold Cuomo Accountable and Save Public Education Tomorrow...

[LizSostre at aol.com]

THIS IS A REMINDER  TO ATTEND THIS VERY IMPORTANT RALLY ON BEHALF OF ALL 
THE PUBLIC SCHOOL CHILDREN  IN THE CITY AND THEIR RIGHT TO A QUALITY EDUCATION.
 
 
 
 
 


 
 
 
 
 
 
Dear Public Education  Supporter: 

 


 
The CEC/Citywide Working  Group is a coalition of elected District and 
Citywide Education Councils  across New York City.  In an unprecedented show of 
unity and action we  - along with numerous other public school parent  and 
pro public  education groups including the Alliance for Quality Education 
(AQE), New  York Lawyers for the Public Interest, NAACP, New York Communities 
for Change  (NYCC), Change the Stakes, NYCPublic, ParentVoicesNY, the 
Partnership for  Student Advocacy, Class Size Matters, and many others - will be 
convening a  rally on the steps of the New York Public Library on  5th Avenue 
and 41st Street at 4:00PM this  Thursday, April 10th.  We will then march to 
 Governor Cuomo's office, 633 Third Ave at  40th Street. (See attachments. 
This is the  corrected time and location)

 


 
The rally and march have  been called in the face of provisions in last week
’s budget which promote  the pitting of parents against parents and the 
willful destruction  of public education in New York City by Governor Cuomo and 
the New York  State Senate, all at the direction of the hedge fund-run 
charter school  lobby. 

 


 
Specifically, Governor  Cuomo and the State Senate-led budget provide for 
the  following:

 


 
-         The  de Blasio administration MUST offer space to EVERY charter  
school rubber-stamped in the final weeks of the Bloomberg  administration.  
Mayor de Blasio previously approved 14 of 17 charters;  now he MUST move 
forward with all 17 – regardless of the fact that autistic  and severely 
emotionally disturbed children will be moved out of their own  buildings, or 
public high schools must step aside to make room for  elementary charters.  

 


 
-        EVERY  charter now located in public school buildings MUST be 
allowed to  EXPAND as much as the charter wishes.  If public school class  sizes 
and building enrollment increase to unsustainable levels, too  bad.  If it 
means giving control of entire buildings to charters by  pushing out all 
public school students, so be  it. 

 


 
-         ALL  new charter schools requesting NYC public school space – and 
 there will be dozens and potentially hundreds more - MUST be  provided it 
or must pay for private space for the charters.  No rent can be charged in 
public or private spaces.  Public  schools have no such rights.

 
-       The Mayor, the City Council, the CEC’s and the Community are  
effectively removed from space decisions, giving the charter lobby more  say over 
our public school buildings (and capital budget) than any of our  elected 
officials.

 


 
-         Per  pupil funding will be increased to ALL charter schools 
despite the  millions they receive from Wall Street and the fact that collocated 
charters  already receive thousands of dollars more per pupil than our 
public  schools. Meanwhile the State refused to fund the court ordered CFE  
decision whereby billions are owed to New York City schools.  Instead the budget 
provides tax cuts to  millionaires. 

 


 
For the first time,  parent leaders across the City have united to make our 
collective voice  heard.  We seek to ensure that the 94% of New York  City 
students in public schools are treated fairly and equally to the 6% in  
charters. We ask that you mobilize your parents, your students, your elected  
officials, your teachers and community members to attend this historic  rally. 
 Attached is a flyer with information, and multiple ways of  reaching rally 
organizers, as well as some points of interest about our  cause.  Please 
contact us with any questions or information at _SaveNYCSchools at gmail.com_ 
(mailto:SaveNYCSchools at gmail.com)  as soon as  possible.

 


 
Thank you in advance for  your support of public education and all our  
children.  We know you are bombarded with many invitations, but this  rally 
will prove to our legislators that we stand as  one.

 


 
The CEC/Citywide  Council Working Group

 


 
email: _SaveNYCSchools at gmail.com_ (mailto:SaveNYCSchools at gmail.com) 

 
Like us on FaceBook:  http: _www.facebook.com/www.facebook.com/<WBR>_ 
(http://www.facebook.com/SaveNYCPublicEducation) 

 


 


 
noah eliot  gotbaum

 
community education  council district 3 (cec3)

 
_noah at gotbaum.com_ (mailto:noah at gotbaum.com) 

 
twitter:  @noahegotbaum

 


 

















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