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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.

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Friday, January 14, 2011

Fightback Friday Informational Fliers for January 21, 2011

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Fightback Friday Info Fliers for Jan. 21
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GEM SITE IS MOVING TO GEMNYC.ORG

GEM has moved:

http://gemnyc.org/

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GEM EVENTS CALENDAR

How do we stop the charter invasions? Next GEM Meeting April 11


Film Screening & Discussion, Apr. 11: The Inconvenient Truth Behind 'Waiting for Superman'


-Upcoming PEP Meetings: April 28th

-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



GEM Produces: The Inconvenient Truth About Waiting for Superman - The Trailer

Check out The Inconvenient Truth About Waiting for Superman web site: http://www.waitingforsupermantruth.org/

GEM/CAPE Rep on Fox and Friends Sunday
http://video.foxnews.com/v/4350208/film-analyzes-education-system-failures

Stop Charter Takeovers at the PEP Meeting on: 4/28

Below are the links for co-locations up for vote at each PEP. Links include: public notice, educational impact statements, and public hearing dates.

April 28th:

http://schools.nyc.gov/AboutUs/leadership/PEP/publicnotice/2010-2011/April2011PEP.htm

CONTACT

Email: gemnyc@gmail.com

Advocacy Toolkit, Oct. 2010

Download at:
http://www.scribd.com/full/40124089?access_key=key-2j68f5rh68bm4t5g3dij

Advocacy Toolkit PDF Final Oct 2010

Links to School Advocacy Documents

Colocation Advocacy Toolkit

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Class Size Matters and GEM Produce Abridged Parent, Teacher, Community Toolkit

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CHANGES IN SCHOOL UTILIZATION: NAVIGATING DOE PROCESS, POLICY, AND PUBLIC INFORMATION

Making our way through Public Announcements, Educational Impact Statements, Public Hearings, and the PEP Prepared by: Julie Cavanagh, CAPE, GEM

Access Information, Advocate and Take Action Public Process for Hearings
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Advocacy Toolkit PDF Final Oct 2010

A toolkit of resources that can be used for advocates defending public education. See the closing schools and charter co-locations supplements.
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Advocacy Toolkit Supplement: School Closings
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Save Jamaica High School

Columbus HS Powerpoint

The Case for Columbus
School Leadership Team Response to the Educational Impact Statement A Brief Summary A 70 year history of serving neighborhood children The sectioning off of prestige programs into small schools in 2002 -3 Severe over-crowding and deplorable learning conditions as a result of small school expansion in 2003-4 and 2004-5 Restructuring into....

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GEMNYC: WHO WE ARE

GEM Points of Unity

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Everything You Wanted to Know About ATRs

ATR Q & A's

Posted at the ICE blog.
http://iceuftblog.blogspot.com/2010/11/atr-q-as.html

School Closing Coalition Blog, Facebook, and Twitter pages

http://stopschoolclosings.wordpress.com/
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      • IS 303 - Julia Daniely, PTA President
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NYC Schools as Targets for Closing, Reorganization, Etc. -

NOTE: The latest list of the 55 schools potentially targeted for closing from the DOE, handed out at a briefing for elected officials after the release of the HS progress reports around 11/15/10.

Click below for to see a jpeg of the list:

55 schools potentially targeted for closing from the DOE


Below is the list previous to Nov. 15 broken into categories:

The 11 schools selected for transformation are:
Automotive High School
Bread & Roses Integrated Arts High School
Brooklyn School for Global Studies
Chelsea Career and Technical Education High School
Cobble Hill School of American Studies
Flushing High School
Franklin Delano Roosevelt High School
Long Island City High School
Queens Vocational and Technical High School
Unity Center for Urban Technologies
William E. Grady Career and Technical Education High School

The additional 23 schools on the state’s “persistently lowest achieving” list that will most likely be phased out and replaced with new schools are:
August Martin High School
Beach Channel High School
Boys and Girls High School
Christopher Columbus High School
Fordham Leadership Academy for Business and Technology
Grace Dodge Career and Technical Education High School
Grover Cleveland High School
High School of Graphic Communication Arts
Jamaica High School
Jane Addams High School for Academics and Careers
John Adams High School
John Dewey High School
John F. Kennedy High School
Metropolitan Corporate Academy
Monroe Academy for Business/Law
Newtown High School
Norman Thomas High School
Paul Robeson High School
Public School 065 Mother Hale Academy
Richmond Hill High School
Sheepshead Bay High School
Washington Irving High School
W.H. Maxwell CTE High School

Additional schools that the city says it will attempt to close again next year, after having been prevented from doing so because of a lawsuit from the N.A.A.C.P. and the teachers’ union this spring:
Frederick Douglass Academy III (middle school)
Global Enterprise High School
Monroe Academy for Business and Law
School for Community Research and Learning
New Day Academy
Academy of Collaborative Education
Kappa II
Academy of Environmental Science High School
Middle School for Academic and Social Excellence
Public School 332
Business, Computer Applications and Entrepreneurship High School
Choir Academy of Harlem High School

June 4th - Press Coverage

http://www.brooklyneagle.com/categories/category.php?category_id=27&id=35871

ABC News Report
http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/education&id=7479077

June 4th Schools

LIST OF SCHOOLS

PS 24K, PS 15K, PS 30M, Prospect Heights International High School, PS 123M, PS 193K, PS 41M, PS 84K, The Brooklyn New School, Banana Kelly, PS 3K, PS 202K, Fredrick Douglass Academy 5, Benjamin Banneker High School, East Flatbush Community Research School, PS 307K, IS 218, Ps 321K, Humanities Prep, The Earth School, PS 197M, PS 139K, Jamaica HS

Videos of FMPR President Rafael Filiciano

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rd2Ry2CwrnA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DPAxKBlcjA

Charter Schools Occupying Space in Public School Buildings

http://www.scribd.com/doc/22977986/Charters-in-Public-Schools-2009

This list will be updated soon with the new co-locations voted on recently.

GEM News

GEM NEWS, Vol.1, Issue 1
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GEM's brochure on Charter Schools

GEM's brochure on Charter Schools
Click on the picture for a downloadable PDF.

GEM's ACTIVIST Bloglist

  • Ed Notes
    Fight Fascism - in Unity Caucus - As Mulgrew and Trump Exhibit Similar Behavior Patterns - YOU'RE FIRED, ARISE Coalition Focuses on Trump - *ABC supporters and acquaintances purged.* Unity purge continues with more firings of those who ran with ABC or were seen as being too friendly. We learn...
    3 days ago
  • NYC Public School Parents
    Commissioner Betty Rosa: Shaping Tomorrow’s Schools - *Betty Rosa is the State Commissioner of Education. She received our 2025 Class Size Matters Skinny Award for standing up to the Trump administration wh...
    2 weeks ago
  • ICE
    A Betrayal of Public Trust: Why New York's Retirees Will Ultimately Prevail - The New York Court of Appeals' decision in Bentkowski v.City of New York represents a troubling abdication of judicial responsibility that prioritizes mu...
    2 months ago
  • NYC Educator
    Vote NO on the UFT Contract. Here is Why: - The best reason to vote no on this contract is this: UFT Unity* lied* to us in 2018. They misrepresented that contract. It was predicated on deals we wer...
    2 years ago
  • CPE/CEP
    REPORT: States With the Best and Worst Schools - States With the Best (and Worst)Schools By *Evan Comen, Michael B. Sauter, Samuel Stebbins and Thomas C. Frohlich* January 20, 2017- http://247wallst.com ...
    8 years ago
  • CAPE
    Hurricane Relief for PS 15, The Patrick F Daly School - As you may know the PS 15K Red Hook Community has been hit hard by Hurricane Sandy. Many of our families and several of our staff members have been displa...
    12 years ago
  • Failing Schools
    Psst…it’s hatching! - No, not the turtle egg in one of the lower school science classes. It’s our new site, ReclaimingReform.org! Don’t worry; the links and discussion that have...
    13 years ago
  • TJC
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The great Chicago video from Labor Beat

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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.

GEM works with members from:

Coalition for Public Education (CPE)

Concerned Advocates for Public Education (CAPE)

Independent Commission on Public Education (ICOPE)

Independent Community of Educators (ICE/UFT; blogs; UFTElections2010, ICE blog

International Socialist Organization NYC (ISO-NYC)

NY Collective of Radical Educators (NYCoRE)

Teacher Advocacy Group (TAGNYC)

Teachers for a Just Contract (TJC/UFT)

Teachers Unite (TU)

Center for Immigrant Families (CIF)

Charter school map

Charter school map

REMIX forum on Bloomberg's Rubber Room tactics

Listen here (which was supplied by Remix). Note: there are problems in the broadcast for the first 10 minutes or so, but it goes well after that. More info at: www.teachers4justicenow.org.

IMPORTANT BOOK

IMPORTANT BOOK
A collection of essays by Leonie Haimson, Jennifer Jennings, Patrick Sullivan, Diane Ravitch, Deborah Meier, and many others.

Free download here.

Read "CHARTER SCHOOLS" by Sarah Knopp

Here's the link on Norm's Notes.

We have to:
1. Fight for resources
2. Wage an educational campaign
3. Demand their teachers get the same provisions as we do
4. Fight all mandates and corporate incursions into our schools.

CHARTER SCHOOL DISCUSSION on WBAI July 30th, 2009

With Esther Armagh, Sheila Evans-Tranumn, Steve Mancini, Sam Anderson, and Angel Gonzalez.

Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5

What they're saying . . .

  • Ed Notes
    Fight Fascism - in Unity Caucus - As Mulgrew and Trump Exhibit Similar Behavior Patterns - YOU'RE FIRED, ARISE Coalition Focuses on Trump - *ABC supporters and acquaintances purged.* Unity purge continues with more firings of those who ran with ABC or were seen as being too friendly. We learn...
    3 days ago
  • NYC Public School Parents
    Commissioner Betty Rosa: Shaping Tomorrow’s Schools - *Betty Rosa is the State Commissioner of Education. She received our 2025 Class Size Matters Skinny Award for standing up to the Trump administration wh...
    2 weeks ago
  • ICE
    A Betrayal of Public Trust: Why New York's Retirees Will Ultimately Prevail - The New York Court of Appeals' decision in Bentkowski v.City of New York represents a troubling abdication of judicial responsibility that prioritizes mu...
    2 months ago
  • NYC Educator
    Vote NO on the UFT Contract. Here is Why: - The best reason to vote no on this contract is this: UFT Unity* lied* to us in 2018. They misrepresented that contract. It was predicated on deals we wer...
    2 years ago
  • Chaz's School Daze
    The Passing Of Chaz 1951-2020 Age 69 - I am the son of Chaz and like to inform you that he passed away this afternoon from the COVID virus. My father passed in peace beside his loved ones. We ar...
    5 years ago
  • Teaching and Politics
    Millions march against the rise of fascism in the United States - The numbers aren't in yet, but upwards of 2 million people march against the policies and espoused fascism of the newly elected president Donald Trump....
    8 years ago
  • TJC
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  • GothamSchools
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Charter School Leaflet

Charter School Leaflet

Tracking the Charter School Debates

Links to charter schools resources:

Olson Online: They don't serve the common good. They benefit some students --usually the more advantaged-- at the expense of others. Bite the bullet: get rid of school choice:
More pros and cons for charters and choice

Perimeter Primate: Comparing parent education backgrounds in charter and public schools opens a window on creaming.
Charter School Tactics

Charter Schools and the Attack on Public Education
LA teacher Sarah Knopp nails it.

Sara Mosle at Slate with a balanced view of KIPP
What the Knowledge Is Power Program has yet to prove


MORE ON CHARTERS

Public schools outperform private

Bloomberg to Host Charter School in Living Room

Hey Oakland, you’re being duped!

"Shut down the mayor, not public schools!"

Read the full post here.

Turn stickies into labels

Turn stickies into labels
Email gemnyc@gmail.com for instructions

Video of the May 14, 2009 Rally

See it here.

GEM on WBAI — more than once!

Listen to Norm Scott and others discuss the effect of Bloomberg-Klein on NYC teachers. The Reassignment Centers were a main topic of this WBAI radio broadcast (go to June 11, 2009).

GEM spokesperson Angel Gonzalez talks about the May 14 rally and the campaign to stop school closings (phase-outs) and the imposition of charter school privatization.
Go to Pseudo-Intellectualism and click http://archive.wbai.org/
Find WBAI Evening News Friday, May 8, 2009 6:00 pm News, and move time indicator to 6 minutes.

Harlem Charter Schools Serve Fewer High Needs Kids

Wrapped up my piece about Harlem charter schools serving fewer high-needs students than the area's zoned schools and thought you might like to see it.

M.S. Candidate
Columbia University
Graduate School of Journalism
2950 Broadway (at 116th Street)
New York, NY 10027
(267) 205-4315
www.kylacalvert.com

See: Covering Education.org

Consequences of School Privatization

This paper on consequences of school privatization is pretty great. Read especially the section on the Edison Schools where it was mandated for 90% of the students to watch commercials in the guise of current events.


Parent Commission

  • Parent Commission (NYC)