Grassroots Education Movement (NYC): June 4th: PS 193K

Friday, June 4, 2010

June 4th: PS 193K

Teachers and parents held an informational picket at PS 193 in Brooklyn today from 7:30 to 8am. Petitions were signed and informational leaflets handed out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3aZjR5EkrE

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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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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

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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
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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.

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June 4th: PS 193K

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