Hundreds of CEJ parents joined more than a dozen New York City elected officials and New York’s leading education advocacy organizations on the steps of the Department of Education on Thursday to declare an education emergency in City schools, and to launch “Save our Schools”—an effort to secure immediate intervention services for more than 200,000 students who are unprepared for college.
The campaign demanded that the Department of Education (DOE) take the immediate action necessary to get all students on track for college and careers, by providing academic intervention services for students testing below standards, comprehensive supports for struggling schools, and the suspension of DOE policies and decisions based on the flawed current system of testing and monitoring.
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