10/17 NYC Meeting: Public Education Under Attack (Central Brooklyn Independent Democrats)

[Hannah Bell]

The Central Brooklyn Independent Democrats (CBID) 2010 Education Forum
PUBLIC EDUCATION UNDER ATTACK !

Sunday, October 17th
3:00 to 5:00 pm
Union Temple
17 Eastern Parkway
Across from the Brooklyn Public Library (Main Branch).
#2 train at the Brooklyn Museum Station.


- Chris Owens, Facilitator -
District Leader, 52nd Assembly District

"DOE Test Score Scam"
Leonie Haimson, Class Size Matters

"Under Receivers, Not Under Achievers"
Akinlabi Mackall, Black New Yorkers for Educational Excellence, S.E.E.D.S/SISDS, CPE/CEP

"Charter School Idea Hijacked"
Mona Davids, New York Charter School Parents Association

"Corporate Big-Bucks Takeover"
John Tarleton, The Indypendent Newspaper

"Misguided Federal, State & City Policies"
Martha Foote, Time Out From Testing


Co-Sponsors:
• Brooklyn Soc. For Ethical Culture’s (EA Comm.),
• Central Brooklyn Martin Luther King Commission,
• Coalition for Public Education (Brooklyn Chapter)
• Independent Commission on Public Education (iCOPE),
• The MANY (Mothers' Agenda, New York),
• Olaniki Alibi, 57th AD Leader ,
• Assemblywoman Inez Barron, 40th AD,
• Councilperson Tish James, 52nd CD,
• Senator Velmanette Montgomery, 18th SD