NYCsocialist.org• Do charter schools provide adequate channels for the democratic input of staff and parents? What happens when charter schools deny educators union rights, pensions and benefits?
• At this forum, we invite teachers, parents, students and community members to consider the role that charter schools play in the larger national agenda to privatize education in the United States. We will discuss the validity of their popular claim to support civil rights by providing parents of “failing” schools other options. Please join us. • Charter schools are opening while public schools are closing or being placed in smaller spaces that hinder the expansion of public schools. Charter schools also have stricter admission policies. With all these “at-risk” or “failing schools” closing, where are their students going to go? Who will accept them?Join a discussion on these important topics and more!
May 4, 5:30 p.m.
Pace University Student Union 1 Pace Plaza (look for signs)
2/3 to Park Place
A/C to Broadway/Nassau
4/5/6 to Brooklyn Bridge/City Hall
Sponsored by the Grassroots Education Movement (GEM) to Defend Public Education, a newly formed coalition of NYC groups and invidviduals dedicated to defend public education, and the parents, students and teachers affected against attempts to privatize, underfund and undermine the system. The coalition is building this forum and is also building a rally on May 14 to oppose NYC school closings.
Co-Sponsored by (list in formation) the Independent Community of Educators (ICE), New York Collective of Radical Educators (NYCoRE), the International Socialist Organization (ISO), Justice Not Just Tests
contact: asc.ice.uft@gmail.com, 718-601-4901
