Talk Out of School

Resources: Teens Take Charge The Schomburg Center’s Junior Scholars Program

Resources on state education aid: AQE 2021 Budget Testimony  and  Side by Side Analysis of Executive Budget AQE Report:  The State's Responsibility to Protect Our Students Invest in Our NY revenue proposals Resources on student data privacy and security: Parent survey  from the Parent Coalition for Student Privacy FBI/CISA recent warning  about rise in ransomware attacks on K12 schools and  ZDnet...

The new book,  Black Lives Matter at School: An Uprising for Educational Justice Cancel the Gifted and Talented Test Now, Not Next Year , Gotham Gazette What the leaked DOE memo about the gifted program reveals , NYC Public School Parents blog Video of FairTest forum  on why the US Dept. of Education should waive the federally mandated tests this spring NY State Education Department announcement  ...

The contract with Pearson to renew their contract for the gifted exam is to be voted upon on January 27 by the Panel for Education Policy; people who would like to speak on this contract can register here , starting at 5:30 PM.  NYSAPE petition urging the State Commissioner to cancel the Regents high school exit exams and to ask the US Department of Education for a waiver from having to administer...

Jal Mehta, “ Make Schools More Human: The pandemic showed us that education was broken. It also showed us how to fix it ,” NY Times, Dec. 23, 2020 Jal Mehta and Sarah Fine,  In Search of Deeper Learning: The Quest to Remake the American High School

For more information and details about middle and high school enrollment process for next year, you can visit the DOE’s website . New Admissions Changes For NYC Middle & High Schools “First Step” Towards Diversity, Advocates Say , Gothamist, Dec. 19, 2020 Recommendations of the Mayor’s Student Diversity Advisory Group , August 2019 Black Segregation Matters , UCLA Civil Rights Project report showi...

Council of School Supervisors and Administrators  website

Results of  parent survey  of students with disabilities including their remote class sizes. Registration  for UFT Saturday Student Enrichment classes in December. Parent Coalition for Student Privacy  summary  of some of the most important provisions of the NYS Student privacy law and regulations. Spreadsheet  with more than 100 ed tech programs that NYC teachers have been asked to assign to thei...

Advocates for Justice website ; Laura Barbieri’s email is lbarbieri@advocatesny.com Legal Assistance Hotline  of NYC Legal Services at 917-661-4500 (Mon-Fri, 10am to 4pm), which low-income parents can call if their children have been denied their educational or civil rights in charter or public schools. Information about the “Got to Go” list lawsuit and $1.1 million settlement , recently awarded f...

Peter Greene’s blog  Curmudgucation  and his post on the  automated essay grading program  called  Ecree . His column in  Forbes  and articles in The Progressive.

Resources and Links: Video: Denisha Jones’ question about standardized testing and Joe Biden’s response at the AFT forum in January 2020. Education Next - What a Democratic Sweep This Fall Would Mean for Education Education Next - Biden’s Regulatory Agenda on Education

Notes and Resources: Sign-up form for NYC parents for their children to attend school for in-person learning (deadline Nov. 15) More information on the reaction to DOE’s reversal, now allowing opt-in only once this year Insights in Education report, “ COVID-19 and Schools: What We Can Learn from Six Months of Closures and Reopening ” Insights in Education country tracker The UNESCO Map showing COV...

Links and Resources: Noliwe Rooks, Cutting School: The Segrenomics of American Education William Doyle,   Let the Children Play: For the Learning, Well-being and Life Success of Every Child , co-authored by Pasi Sahlberg Segment about Finnish schools in Michael Moore’s documentary, “Where to Invade Next”

Resources: Young Advocates for Fair Education [Yaffed] Cutting School: Privatization, Segregation, and the End of Public Education by Noliwe Rooks

Links and Resources K-12 Cybersecurity Resource Center and its district self-assessment tool NY State Senator Brad Hoylman website Revenue bills introduced in the Legislature sponsored by Sen. Hoylman include: a  pied-a-terre tax  on non-primary residences valued at $5m or more, a repeal of tax breaks for  yachts  and  private jets , authorizing New York City to be able to impose a tax on  vacant...

Resources: InsideSchools website InsideSchools plus InsideSchools free course for parents: " How to Support Online Learning at Home "

Alliance for Quality Education report: Set Up to Fail: How Cuomo’s School Cuts Target New York’s Black & Brown Students  For more information on AQE’s planned 9/12/20 actions on school funding, contact   Maria@aqeny.org   News on Albany school cuts  and Schenectady layoffs  Campaign for Commercial Free Childhood’s statement urging schools to minimize screen time and ed tech  Also: CCFC petition on...

Jamaal Bowman’s education platform and his ideas for opening schools in a time of COVID-19.  Advocates for Children website   AFC Guides and resources AFC NY Helpline: Call (866) 427-6033 on Monday to Thursday, 10 am to 4 pm  Op Ed on how homeless students need special attention in NYC’s school reopening plan 

American Counseling Association (ACA) American School Counselor Association (ASCA) College Access Consortium of New York (CACNY) DegreesNYC Hope Center for College, Community, and Justice Options Center College Counseling at Goddard Riverside Interrupting Racism: Equity and Social Justice in School Counseling (2019, Atkins & Oglesby) National Association of College Admission Counseling (NACAC) Nat...

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DOE still has no plan to fill nursing shortage ahead of school reopening , by Sara Dorn, New York Post Solving the School Nurse Crisis Before Schools Reopen , by Kim Watkins, Gotham Gazette Does the Covid pandemic spell the end of public schools? , by Johann Neem, USA Today COVID-19 "Microschools" Are Betsy DeVos's Lastest Privatization Scheme , by Candice Bernd, Truthout  Harvard Epidemiologist:...

Teachers' plea for outdoor learning -  NY Daily News by Liat Olenick, Darcy Whittemore and Heather Costanza Schools Beat Earlier Plagues With Outdoor Classes. We Should Too ...  New York Times by Ginia Bellafante   Petition for Outdoor Schooling Now! Contact your legislators now – schools desperately need funding to reopen safely next fall!  Action Alert from Class Size Matters

Governor Cuomo’s announcement of the metrics that will determine whether schools can be reopened in NY state in the fall. Detailed guidelines released by the state Department of Health and the Board of Regents . Class Size Matters and NYC Kids PAC proposals for the safe reopening of schools; letter to the Board of Regents and Summary of ideas from our June 20 conference . How the need for social d...

Charter schools and the Payroll Protection Program Carol Burris and Marla Kilfoyle, Did some charter schools double-dip in federal coronavirus relief funding? , Washington Post Erica Green, Charter Schools, Some With Billionaire Benefactors, Tap Coronavirus Relief , NY Times Network for Public Education, What do you think? Are charter schools public schools or small businesses? Email info@networkf...

For more information on ending the school to prison pipeline, check out this letter signed by hundreds of NYC school leaders urging the Mayor to transfer School Safety Agents to the supervision of principals rather than the NYPD, and the websites of the YA-YA Network and Dignity in Schools campaign .  To find out about the campaign of Teens Take Charge to end school admission screens, check out th...