Fight Education Privitization: NY Actions

education cuts protest Fight Education Privitization: NY Actions

The Rank And File Coalition is calling for New York actions in defense of education. This announcement was shared.

Based in part on a growing sense that the UFT is not doing enough to fight school closings, chapter leaders, delegates and members from seven of the 33 closing schools have called a rally to be held in front of Tweed, DOE headquarters, a week before the Public Education Panel will vote on closing their schools.

At the March Delegate Assembly, President Mulgrew stated, “Bloomberg will close more schools from now until the end of his term, than he has in the last ten years.”

A half dozen of the doomed schools received “A” or “B” on their last report cards, as well as good quality reviews. This shows no school is safe from closing now, as long as closings are accepted as policy. The UFT has no strategy to stop this.

No single rally can stop all school closings. But we must begin to rebuild our union, from the ground up, from the chapter level up. Until we do, they are just going to keep coming at us, again and again. This rally is a start.

Please join us on April 19, in front of DOE hdq, 52 Chambers Street, in Manhattan. Assemble at 4, Rally begins 4:30 pm.

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One Comment to “Fight Education Privitization: NY Actions”

  1. Maurice Muhammad Minister of Information with Black Unity 17 April 2012 at 12:01 pm #

    We must do some real good thinking how has this education served our needs? It has failed us so we need to turn inward and have our own schools and teach our own children.Stop being followers of others we must put our own needs on the table and build from that point to address our own issues. Why is that so hard to understand? What more do we need to happen till we wake up and do something in a constructive way instead of begging this enemy to educate us! Look at what this education has produced. We need a total change and now! Truth has come to you!