End the School-To-Prison
School-to-Prison pipeline is one of the hardest campaigns to deal with. The reason include kids in jail more than 20 a month most of the time are kids with special needs. The school-to-prison pipeline is call like that because this problem is like a pbc pipeline. You need different pieces to connect and finish the job. But with this one are problems like house problem, school metal detectors, our kids friends. This process is part of our daily life in the city of Rochester and sometimes we think that we can't stop it but we can. Parents, uncles, grandparents, kids. all united we can stop the school-to-prison pipeline.
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Campaign for Fiscal Equity (CFE)
2016 marks the tenth year since New York State’s highest court, the Court of Appeals, ruled on the Campaign for Fiscal Equity (CFE) school funding lawsuit. The CFE lawsuit was brought by parents against the State of New York claiming that children were not being provided an opportunity to an adequate education. In 2006, the NYS Court of Appeals ruled in CFE’s favor and found that New York State is violating students constitutional right to a “sound and basic education” by leaving schools without the funding necessary. Schools were ordered to receive $5.5 billion increase in basic operating aid (also known as Foundation Aid) statewide over the course of a four year phase-in from 2007 to 2011.
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Vote Against Betsy DeVos
The Network for Public Education is appalled, but not surprised, by Trump’s nomination of Betsy DeVos as Secretary of Education. DeVos is a long-time advocate for the Trump/Pence education privatization agenda. She, like the Trump/Pence team, favors vouchers that would give public funds to private and religious schools. Her family’s foundation has promoted vouchers in many states. The Trump/Pence/DeVos plan, long supported by the extreme right, would take Title I funds from districts and allow parents to “shop” with those dollars among private schools, charters and online schools. DeVos believes that the market solves all problems, and she and her husband’s foundation spent nearly 1.5 million dollars to persuade the Michigan legislature to kill a bill to regulate charter schools in the state.
Thanks to her efforts, 80% of the charters in Michigan operate for profit, without accountability or transparency. Send a clear message to the Senate that Betsy DeVos should not be confirmed as U.S. Secretary of Education. Her hostility towards public schools disqualifies her. Send your letter today. We make it easy. |