NYC Coalition for Educational Justice

Register Now! Advanced Training for Parent Leaders

Alliance for Quality Education, Coalition for Education Justice, Brooklyn UFT Parent Committee and Community Education Council 14 presents:

Parent Power School Part 5

This Parent Power School will be a Brooklyn townhall on School Funding in collaboration with the Alliance for Quality Education! Join parents, youth and elected officials and find out about the Campaign for Fiscal Equity, how to lobby elected officials and how to get people in your community engaged in this fight to equal funding for all!

Sat, December 13th

Registration and breakfast begins at 9:30. Training will begin at 10 AM and end at 1 pm.

A light breakfast, lunch, childcare and translation will be provided.

Location: UFT Brooklyn: 335 Adams St, 24th Floor, Brooklyn NY

Trains: 2,3,4,5 (Borough Hall), A, C, F, N, R (Jay St- Metrotech)

For more information, please email ncapers@nyccej.org or maria@aqeny.org

Flyers: English |Spanish

ABOUT PARENT POWER:

Parent Power School educates, empowers and instills confidence and hope for Black, Brown and immigrant parents to be articulate messengers and change agents on education issues affecting their children and the community.  By developing the voices, skills, issue expertise and relationships of public school parents and community members Parent Power School will build and strengthen CEJ.

This fall, CEJ won a $5 million initiative from the NYC Department of Education to offer 30-minute one-to-one parent-teacher conferences for the parents of every child who scored at Level 1 or 2 on the 2013 state tests. Read more below!

PARENTS!

Did your child score a Level 1 or 2 on the NY State exams last year?

Come learn activities and strategies to help your child at home!

— Sign Up for an Extended Parent-Teacher Conversation NOW —

Watch these videos for more information:
English | Spanish

Flyer:

English | Spanish

by Sarah Darville, Gotham Schools

Parent advocates stood with a top city education official on the steps of City Hall in late September to make an announcement: The city was setting aside $5 million for extra parent-teacher conferences for students with low state test scores.

But advocates weren’t sure that was the event they were going to have. Until two days before the press conference, members of the Coalition for Educational Justice thought they might just be calling on the city to set aside the funds. Though the group had met with Department of Education officials twice, they had been told that the costs seemed too high and the funding source unclear.

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This year, CEJ worked with the A+NYC coalition to create an Education Roadmap for the Next Mayor. Click here to read about how the next mayor can create a public school system that works for all students.