Nov 14, 2016

Sign the letter to DOE: Defend NYC public schools against Trump's promised decimation.

(Scroll to bottom for info on Trump's education policies.)



Parents & school communities are signing a letter to Mayor de Blasio and NYC DOE. You can sign it here. Trump's policies will gut and privatize the public educations system. In other cities -- Philadelphia, New Orleans -- the public school system has been shut down by these same policies. We'll post more about that soon.

Here's a summary of Trump's education policies, from shutting down the federal Dept. of Education to possibly stripping low-income public schools of Title 1 funding, and redirecting those funds to charters or private schools.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/education/wp/2016/11/10/what-a-trump-presidency-means-for-americas-public-schools/

When reading about Trump's policies, don't be fooled by his language about "school choice." The kind of choice he's referring to means letting people choose to take public school funding to private and for-profit schools -- schools that pick and choose which students they'll serve. It decimates the school system that's supposed to provide equitable, good education to all. In Trump's future, parents who want equitable public schools will be forced to battle corporations whose bottom line is money and monopoly, rather than trying to move our public officials who are ultimately accountable to us. , , , ,