[BwayDems] Fwd: JOIN US AND SPREAD THE WORD! RALLY TO PROTECT OUR KIDS AND PUBLIC SCHOOL...

Tue Mar 24 10:02:04 EDT 2015

Please join us on Saturday!!   You do not have to be a parent to  join us. 
You do not have to be a school leader to join us. You just have to care  
about public education! 

I will be there and I hope to see YOU!

____________________________________
 From: CEC3 at schools.nyc.gov
To: CEC3 at schools.nyc.gov
CC:  DJShepp at schools.nyc.gov
Sent: 3/24/2015 9:47:34 A.M. Eastern Daylight  Time
Subj: JOIN US AND SPREAD THE WORD! RALLY TO PROTECT OUR KIDS AND  PUBLIC 
SCHOOLS, THIS SATURDAY, MARCH 28TH

Dear Fellow Public School  Parent and School Leaders, 

We write to you as public school  parents, and members of the Educational 
Council Consortium (ECC) - a unified  group of CEC and Citywide Council 
members from across New York City -  to ask you to join us and thousands of other 
parents, kids,  teachers, principals, school workers, and community members 
and groups this  Saturday March 28th as we rally together to protect our 
kids and public  schools and stand up against Governor Cuomo's vow to "break 
up" our  public schools and hand them over to private charter operators or 
state  bureaucrats. The rally will be held:

Saturday, March 28th at  Noon, 

3rd Avenue and 41st Street,  outside of Governor Cuomo's midtown Manhattan 
office.  

We are helping to organize this  rally, along with a wonderful coalition of 
parent, educator, and community  groups including the Alliance for Quality 
Education, Change the Stakes,  Citizen Action, Class Size Matters, Coalition 
for Educational Justice,  Coalition for Public Education, CSA - The Council 
of School Supervisors and  Administrators, El Puente, Local 372/District 
Council 37, New York Communities  for Change, NYSUT, Save Our Schools 
Coaltion, Strong Economy for All, The  United Federation of Teachers and WAGPOPS to 
urge you as parent and  school leaders to reach out to and bring in all your 
schools and kids on  Saturday, because we believe that the Governor's 
recent education  proposals, embedded in his budget, pose an enormous threat to 
our public  schools and kids.  

Here's  why: 

·  First, the Governor is proposing to underfund  our New York City public 
schools by almost $3 billion - or $2600 per student -  as determined by the 
State Supreme Court in the Campaign for Fiscal Equity  (CFE) Decision. That 
is money owed to our kids and  schools! 

·  Second, the Governor's plan to use Pearson  Corp's Common Core state 
tests as the main measure in teacher and school  evaluations is unfair to 
teachers and PUTS EVEN MORE TEST PRESSURE on our kids  by forcing teachers to 
divert more class time, curriculum and resources to  these "do or die" tests.  

·  Third, the Governor's plan to raise the charter  school cap will force 
New York City to fund up to 250 additional charter  schools siphoning 
billions $ more in space and resources from our public  schools to unaccountable 
"educational corporations' aka  charters

It's time for the Governor to  focus on and invest in the 97% of our kids 
in our PUBLIC schools - not break  them up.

So please join us on  Saturday the 28th and make your voices heard.  And 
help send this  flier and sign up sheet out to all of your schools, your 
fellow parents,  teachers, school workers, neighbors. And bring them, along with 
your  kids! You can also sign on and invite friends via Facebook at: 
https://www.facebook.com/events/835159699896878/ 

Because it's for ALL of our  kids.

Thank  you. 

The Educational Council  Consortium 

Mary  L. Kane 
Administrative  Assistant 
District  3 Community Education Council (CEC3) 
154  W. 93rd St. Rm. 204 
New  York, NY 10025 
Tel.  - (212) 678-2782 
Fax   - (212) 678-2804 
_Cec3 at schools.nyc.gov_ (mailto:Cec3 at schools.nyc.gov)    
_Mkane8 at schools.nyc.gov_ (mailto:Mkane8 at schools.nyc.gov)  
_www.cec3.org_ (http://www.cec3.org/)    
 Follow  CEC3 on Twitter- CEC3 at CEC3NYC 
 (http://www.nycparentleaders.org/)  
Websites:  _NYCParentLeaders.org_ (http://www.nycparentleaders.org/)   
_CCEC  Elections Video_ (https://vimeo.com/user36243212)  _#RaiseYourHandNYC_ 
(https://twitter.com/search?q=#raiseyourhandnyc&src=typd)  

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