Protest for Schools

From a March 4 NY email:

*** Please forward widely ***
47 Schools Slated for Potential Closure - Its time to stand up to the attack on public education

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.

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

Make your voices heard! Join the Real Reformers. Protest the Panel for Education Policy. 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 School
29 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.]

Sponsored by the Grassroots Education Movement - http:// grassrootseducationmovement.blogspot.com

Come help plan our action -
Join our Schools Organizing Committee at the Skylight Diner on Thursday, Nov 11th at 5:00pm, 34th and 9th avenue.