Talk Out of School

The Policing and Social Justice Project The End of Policing by Alex Vitale (free Ebook) Alliance for Quality Education Communities United for Police Reform (CPR)   

The link to apply to be the NY State Education Commissioner is here .

"Smoking gun" emails revealing Mayor de Blasio promised to delay and soften the Yeshiva report in exchange for renewing Mayoral control  

Letter to Gov. Cuomo on his decision to partner with the Gates Foundation to "reimagine our schools" The letter, signed by Class Size Matters , NY State Allies for Public Education , and the Parent Coalition for Student Privacy was quoted by the AP , in US News and World Report , NY Post ,and Gothamist among others. The report from the American Federation of Teachers, A PLAN TO SAFELY REOPEN AMERI...

" Cut the Contracts, Save our Schools" campaign including instructions on speaking out at the Panel for Educational Policy meeting The recently-announced DOE grading policy  The letter on school grading to Mayor DeBlasio and Chancellor Carranza from advocates  

Links to learn more about topics discussed on the show: Excessive spending by NYC Dept. of Education on busing and other contracts this year: Two articles in the NY Post here and here . Two posts in the NYC Public School Parents blog here and here Challenges of remote learning for teachers especially those with children at home The controversy over grading in NYC during remove learning and school...

Chad Marlow, Those “Free” Remote Learning Apps Have a High Cost: Your Student’s Privacy    Educator Toolkit for Student and Teacher Privacy   Parent Toolkit for Student Privacy  Cheri Kiesecker on how to check the settings for your child’s Google classroom/Gsuite account  

The Council of School Supervisors and Administrators website Among the issues we discussed: Mayor de Blasio's delay in closing schools     ...despite the advice of many scientists NYC Department of Education (DOE) cancellation of Zoom  amid serious privacy concerns The NY state and NYC decision to eliminate school spring break DOE's refusal to release educator and school staff health and mortality...

AFT links: Randi Weingarten’s essay,   On how teachers and students should cap this unprecedented school year Share My Lesson with teacher resources. Colorín Colorado ! A bilingual site for educators and families of English language learners Privacy links: The Educator Toolkit for Student and Teacher Privacy – written by the Parent Coalition for Student Privacy and Badass Teachers Association (wit...

Akil Bello's blog - akilbello.com  FairTest - the National Center for Fair & Open Testing NYC schools that skip standardized tests have higher graduation rates NY state tests suspended for remainder of school year Talking pineapple question on state exam stumps... everyone! As high school exit exams fall out of favor in Washington and New Jersey, New York is increasingly an outlier  

Alliance for Quality Education Emily James, Huffington Post, " I'm a Teacher, and it Feels Like my City Doesn't Care About My Life ."   Advice to parents  from the Parent Coalition for Student Privacy about how to maximize student privacy and minimize screen time in the midst of the coronavirus crisis Audrey Watters blog, Hack Education

Let the Children Play -  https://global.oup.com/academic/product/let-the-children-play-9780190930967?cc=us&lang=en&# Long Island Opt Out -  https://www.facebook.com/groups/Longislandoptout/ NYSAPE -  https://nysape.org/

CBOs for Equity - www.cboequity.org/  Jamaal Bowman's campaign website - www.bowmanforcongress.com/

Arthur Goldstein's blog -  http://nyceducator.com/   Bronx Educators United for Justice -  https://www.facebook.com/groups/BronxEducatorsUnited4Justice/ 

https://global.oup.com/academic/product/let-the-children-play-9780190930967?cc=us&lang=en& https://www.finlandcenter.org/new-page https://www.nysape.org 

Network for Public Education:  https://networkforpubliceducation.org ECE Policyworks:  https://ecepolicyworks.com Defending the Early Years:  https://dey.org

Illinois Families for Public School:  https://www.ilfps.org/ Links to articles on the federal class action lawsuit: https://www.studentprivacymatters.org/federal-class-action-lawsuit-filed-vs-college-boards-predatory-practices/ https://loevy-content-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2019/12/1.-Complaint.pdf 

Network for Public Education report: Still Asleep at the Wheel NPE Action Conference Education Voters, PA Curmudegation Blog

NPE Report:  https://networkforpubliceducation.org/stillasleepatthewheel/ Red State Revolt by Eric Blanc:  https://www.versobooks.com/books/2955-red-state-revolt 

Diane Ravitch's new book, Slaying Goliath: The Passionate Resistance to Privatization. Network for Public Education   and NPE Action . Diane Ravitch's blog .

Leonie Haimson speaks with Naftuli Moster, founder of Young Advocates for Fair Education (YAFFED), about his five - year campaign, in the courts and in the political arena, to ensure that Ultra Orthodox Yeshivas comply with the law and that their students receive a minimally adequate education. 

Jessica Levin of the Education Law Center and Katherine Dunn of the Southern Poverty Law Center talk to Carol Burris about their new organizational joint effort to inform the public about school voucher programs: Public Funds Public Schools. Burris discusses how vouchers are part of the effort of Secretary of Education Betsy De Vos's push to transform public education to a privatized system.  http...

Catch up on this week's episode where Leonie Haimson talked with NYC Council Member,Mark Treyger, chair of the Education Committee on what we learned from yesterday's Council hearings on excessive high-stakes testing in NYC schools. Then we were joined by Christopher Werth, whose ground breaking WNYC investigations on lead contamination in NYC schools helped lead to a new round of testing and reme...

Follow these links to learn more  -  Education Law Center:  https://edlawcenter.org/ Class Size Lawsuit: https://www.classsizematters.org/we-filed-an-appeal-in-our-class-size-lawsuit-to-require-nyc-department-of-education-to-lower-class-size-in-all-grades/ Senator John Liu:  https://www.nysenate.gov/senators/john-c-liu

More on the proposal of NY State education department to allow for the selling of student data and its use for marketing purposes here .  Here's a sample message if you'd like to provide a comment to the State about this proposal, with a deadline for comment of Sept. 16. Here's the copy of the report of the School Diversity Advisory Committee .