Coleman Literacy Intro. ALEC Exposed - Alec Exposed. Common Core: The David Coleman Dilemma » Alan Lawrence Sitomer. ALEC, Trayvon Martin, CCA's private prisons, and charter schools? - On the LAKE Front. Walcott Event Disrupted by Protesters – SchoolBook. Demonstrators calling themselves "Occupy the Department of Education" interrupt a presentation by Chancellor Dennis Walcott. 8:17 p.m. | Updated Chancellor Dennis M.
Walcott's planned event to promote Parents as Partners week, and to discuss the new Common Core curriculum standards, was disrupted Tuesday night when he could not be heard over the din of protesters. The meeting at the Seward Park High School at 350 Grand Street on the Lower East Side was to feature speakers and a question-and-answer session, according to the Department of Education's news release.
But as soon as the meeting started, the chancellor was drowned out by about 200 protesters, some of whom were affiliated with the Occupy Wall Street movement. Others identified themselves as public-school teachers and parents. Occupy Wall Street Protests Outside Department Of Education. NEW YORK -- On Monday evening, about 200 students, parents, school aides and educators associated with Occupy Wall Street congregated on the steps of the New York City Department of Education in lower Manhattan to "occupy the DOE.
" The crowd vented its frustrations about K-12 education in the form of a General Assembly, the consensus-building method Occupy Wall Street protesters originated in Zuccotti Park. The event was the first official General Assembly held on education, beginning what organizers said they hoped would become a recurring series of events. The protesters aired their concerns about charter schools, mayoral control of schools, budget cuts and standardized tests.
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