Dec. 9, '09 Maxwell High School, Brooklyn.
Part 2 - The Forum.
Community advocates and UFT grassroots groups are organizing locally and citywide to stop this ruthless assault on students, public schools and ALL school-workers.
The Grassroots Education Movement (GEM) to Defend Public Education educates, organizes and mobilizes educators, parents, students and our communities against the corporate and government policies that underfund, undermine and privatize our public school system. GEM advocates both within and outside the UFT for the equality and quality of public education services and the rights of school workers.
-April film showings for "The Inconvenient Truth Behind Waiting for Superman" are filling up, dates to be publicized soon. The official film opening will take place in May and will be announced soon. To be put on the list for a copy of the film or to sign up for a house showing or a public screening email: gemnyc@gmail.com
From the producers:
Arne Duncan's "Chicago Plan, as former teacher and editor of Substance News George Schmidt explains, is the template for a national strategy to dismantle public education. Through revealing footage and comments from Chicago teachers, this video shows the resistance that has been growing among teachers and community organizations." 28 min.
1 comment:
As an educator, I have lost ALL respect for Bloomberg, Klein and the DOE!
I do not believe anything they say anymore. Yes, I agree to the emails going around.... it is time to STRIKE! Even without the UFT!
Teachers, parents and school staff... lets shut Tweed down!
It is disgusting and it is time to wake up and rise up! Between the Charter Cancer Bloomberg loves and the school closings fiasco, and the constant stress these people are causing, we need to take back the schools system from these dictators and tyrants!
They want to break us up and break us down! They do not care if communities are torn apart, divided and in an uproar! This is what we want for our school system? Remember, it is ours NOT theirs, they will be gone and we will be left to pick up the pieces? Not on our watch! They are screwing us ... it is time to screw them! I have had it like a thousand others and growing across the city!
UFT, take that contract deal you are making - giving away our job security and everything else and forget it. We want to get rid of Bloomberg and Klein and the DOE!And UFT, get rid of your charter schools too. We need to be united as a union, not divided. You are worrying about getting charter schools as members but forgetting us, the ones paying dues and suffering under these disgusting elected officials! NYC Education is a disgrace...now run by hedge fund managers and their billions of dollars!
WAKE UP TEACHERS, SPREAD THE WORD, IT IS TIME TO GET OUR SCHOOLS BACK FROM THESE INHUMAN INDIVIDUALS WITH OR WITHOUT THE UFT!
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