General News
Join the discussion on school governance
Jan 10, 2008 4:47 PM
The UFT has scheduled a series of upcoming forums in each borough to allow parents, community members and other stakeholders in the city’s public education system to evaluate the present school governance system and make recommendations for future governance before the 2009 sunset of mayoral control of city schools.
“When the state Legislature granted Mayor Bloomberg control of New York City’s public schools, it included a provision calling an automatic sunset in 2009. This provides a terrific opportunity to determine how well mayoral control works and whether other school governance methods should be considered,” explained UFT President Randi Weingarten.
“We’ve established a nonpartisan task force on school governance,” she continued. “It’s a broad-based committee representative of all the union’s political parties and the school system’s different levels, types of schools and geographic areas. We want it to be inclusive because school governance is too important an issue to be treated as the province of a few. Everyone has to be heard. Our goal now is to engage classroom educators, parents, civic organizations, community groups, elected officials and others in a public participation process so that their views on what kind of school governance would support teaching and learning and student success are heard in ample time before the sunset of mayoral control.”
Please come out and make your voice heard!
Here are the locations, dates and times of the borough forums. You may sign up to speak at the meeting, or in advance by notifying the contact person listed for the forum. Written statements will be accepted by each forum's contact person as well.
Thursday, Jan. 17, 7 p.m.
Staten Island
715 Ocean Terrace (Petrides Complex, Bldg. B)
Contact: Emil Pietromonaco (718) 605-1400 epietromonaco@uft.org
Tuesday, Jan. 22, 6 - 8 p.m.
Manhattan
Martin Luther King Education Complex, 122 Amsterdam Ave. (corner of 65th St.)
Contact: Monique McCoy (212) 598-6835 mmccoy@uft.org
Thursday, Feb. 7, 4 p.m.
Bronx
Bronx UFT, 2500 Halsey Street
Contact: Hector Ruiz (718) 862-6074 hruiz@uft.org
Tuesday, Feb. 12, 4:30 p.m.
Brooklyn
Brooklyn UFT, 335 Adams St., 24th Floor
Contact: Armando Blasse (718) 852-4900 ablasse@uft.org
Wednesday, Feb. 13, 6 p.m.
Manhattan
MS 104, 330 East 21st Street (between 1st. and 2nd; take the #6 train to 23rd Street and walk East from the train stop)
Contact: Monique McCoy (212) 598-6835 mmccoy@uft.org
Thursday, Feb. 28, 4 p.m.
Queens
Queens UFT, 97-77 Queens Blvd., 8th Floor (Rego Park
Contact: Diane Ganz (718) 275-4400 dganz@uft.org
