New charter school seeks students, teachers – The Riverdale Press

F.I.P.N.A sent the following related to a new charter school . If you are seeking employment or a school to place your child please do review.

Gregory

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This new charter middle school is opening at the intersection of W 231st Street and Corlear Avenue. The attached Riverdale Press article gives info on open houses, and how to apply.

As this is the season when parents are looking for schools for their children, we will post information on schools. If you have information you’d like to share about a school kids in Van Cortlandt Village can attend, please send it to us at fipna@fipna.org, and we’ll post it.

New charter school seeks students, teachers – The Riverdale Press.

"Labor Goes to the Movies" Sponsors $2 Film Screenings at PSC Union Hall

With all the tough talk about making teachers accountable and high stakes testing, here is a film event that should produce heated discussion. If you feel you need to brush up on the topic or express your opinion, please read the information posted below about the screening taking place at PSC Union Hall. The event is not in the Boogiedown, but it does deal with education which is a universal topic. In addition, it's only $2!!!

Gregory
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Special Screening
Saturday, January 21
Noon–2 films

Waiting for Superman
Davis Guggenheim, US, 2010

The Inconvenient Truth Behind Waiting for Superman
Cavanagh, Marelli, Scott, Bruhn, Donlan, US, 2011

Please join us for our special Saturday screening/discussion on January 21 of two recent films on our public education system. One has received massive publicity and funding to promote charter schools as part of a neoliberal reform. The second one is a local response, made by NYC schoolteachers, exposing the inaccuracy and inequity driving the charter school movement. We will view both films and have a discussion featuring education and union activists, as well as one of the filmmakers.

The screening is sponsored by the PSC and is open to the public.

Julie Cavanagh has been a special education teacher for more than ten years at PS 15 in Red Hook, Brooklyn. She is a member of Grassroots Education Movement, advocating for equity and real reform in our public education system. Julie is also the co-producer of the documentary The Inconvenient Truth Behind Waiting for Superman.

Michael Fabricant is Treasurer of the Professional Staff Congress. Since his election six years ago, he has continued his work at the Ph.D. Program in Social Welfare. His most recent writing, Charter Schools and the Corporate Makeover of Public Education: What's at Stake? (2012) was co-authored with Michelle Fine.

PSC Union Hall, 61 Broadway, 16th floor Manhattan
1, R, to Rector Street; 2, 3, 4, 5 to Wall Street; J, Z to Broad Street; A, C to Broadway/Nassau
Near the PATH train and many buses. Call for directions, 212-354-1252.
Suggested donation: $2.00

For more details, please visit the Labor Goes to the Movies committee page.

CHARTER SCHOOL OPPONENTS JOIN SUPPORTERS OF PUERTO RICO’S TEACHERS’ UNION TO BRING ANTI-PRIVATIZATION MESSAGE TO BLOOMBERS’ EDUCATION DEPARTMENT

Here is more on Charter school controversy as it relates to the U.S. Commonwealth, Puerto Rico.

Gregory
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CHARTER SCHOOL OPPONENTS JOIN SUPPORTERS OF PUERTO RICO’S TEACHERS’ UNION TO BRING ANTI-PRIVATIZATION MESSAGE TO BLOOMBERS’ EDUCATION DEPARTMENT

Manhattan, NYC – On Monday afternoon, October 17th , teachers, labor, religous, community activists and Occupy Wall Street supporters will be at Mayor Bloombergs’ NYC Education Department in responseto the call for support by the Teachers’ Union of Puerto Rico (FMPR) against charter schools and Privatization of the public schools system.

The FMPR is protesting the visit to Puerto Rico of U.S. Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan, to attend an “Education Summit” from October 17-18. This visit by the education tzar of the Obama Administration was convened to increase support for the federal No Child Left Behind policies that have promoted thousands of layoffs, school closings and school privatization with charter schools in Puerto Rico and throughout the United States.

The Teachers’ Union of Puerto Rico (FMPR) has been the target of intense repression by the Puerto Rican government, including police brutality, the illegal elimination of dues deduction by the union and the revocation for life of the leaves of absence from work without pay for teachers.

The Monday demonstration will also denounce the anti-democratic privatization policies at the federal, state and city level that continue to cripple public school education for the children of working famlies and the assault on the rights of teachers and other school employees in New York City.This protest is part of ongoing campaigns and actions by anti-charter privatization groups throughout the U.S. and by NYC based education, community and labor activists.

WHEN: MONDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2011

WHERE: NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
52 Chambers Street @ Broadway y Centre Street, Manhattan

TIME: 5:00 P.M.

CONTACT: FMPRSUPPORTNY@HOTMAIL.COM

Watchdog Education Groups Rally to Stop Charter Schools Free Ride

There is a battle brewing related to the Board of Education policy to give away or rent space to Charter Schools at drastically discounted rents. Various watchdog education groups have organized a press conference for this Thursday to help get the word out. Please do review the e-mail sent to see their point of view or to participate in the event. The basic question seems to be; why are our tax dollars funding charter schools which are often for profit entities?????


Gregory
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Join us for our press conference before our court hearing demanding education corporations which operate charter schools, comply with NY State Law and pay rent. Although, publicly funded with YOUR taxes, charter schools are privately managed educations corporations governed by their private board of directors. The "charter" is simply the name of the contract between the education corporation and the NY State Education Department.

Mayor Bloomberg gives away public school space to these private education corporations for FREE, violating NY State Law.

Each year, Mr. Bloomberg gives away approximately $100 million in FREE rent and recently allocated another $200 million dollars to help them build their own buildings, while seeking to layoff public school staff workers, cutting childcare services and slashing public school budgets.

WHO: New York City Parents Union, Class Size Matters, parents and supporters of quality public education for all children.

WHAT: Press conference followed by court hearing demanding education corporations pay rent for public school space.

WHEN: Thursday, September 15, 2011

TIME: 9:00AM

WHERE: New York State Supreme Court
60 Centre Street

Take 4/5/6 to Brooklyn Bridge/City Hall; 2/3 to Park Place; N/R to City Hall; A/C/E to Chambers Street