Occupy The DOE. Occupy Wall Street Spills Into Classrooms. NEW YORK -- While on Wall Street many protesters decry economic inequality, and in Washington, D.C. debates continue over federal education policy, teachers across the country are occupying their classrooms. In the eyes of the president of the second-largest teachers' union, the two issues of inequality and education are closely related. Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, has been a frequent visitor to New York's OWS protests. The AFT recently revised its "working document" -- a sort of mission statement -- to include language referring to the richest 1 percent.
"We've been thinking about this whole notion of economic inequity and what it means," Weingarten said in an interview. New York's Occupy Wall Street plans to storm a Tuesday Department of Education-organized meeting with schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott. The group behind the SOS march has posted a "statement of solidarity" with OWS. "The basic ideas are the same," she said. Dennis Walcott. Dennis M. Walcott (born September 7, 1951) was the Chancellor of the New York City Department of Education.
He succeeded Cathie Black, who resigned in April 2011 after only three months on the job.[1] Although Walcott lacks training as a schools administrator[2] and requires a waiver from the New York State Education Department under Education Commissioner David M. Steiner, he is a former employee at Amistad Day Care Center,[3][4] holds a master's degrees in the education field and is a former member of the New York City Board of Education. He also served nine years as New York City Deputy Mayor for Education. Prior to joining Mayor Michael Bloomberg in 2002 as Deputy Mayor for Education, he headed the New York chapter of the Urban League.[2][5] Early life and education[edit] Walcott is the son of immigrants from Barbados, and also St. Public service work[edit] In 1975, Walcott founded the Frederick Douglass Brother-to-Brother mentoring program. Personal life[edit] References[edit]
Gothamschools: Discussion of Common Core to compete with human mic tonight. “The people’s mic” could drown out discussion of curriculum standards at tonight’s unusual Panel for Educational Policy meeting. The Department of Education has convened an off-schedule and highly irregular PEP meeting just to discuss new curriculum standards that are being rolled out this year. At most PEP meetings, panel members listen patiently, but mostly silently, to members of the public before signing off on the city’s education policy proposals. Tonight, the panel won’t be voting on anything. Instead, they’ll listen to presentations by the architect of the Common Core standards, David Coleman, and his chief champion at the DOE, Chief Academic Officer Shael Polakow-Suransky. They’ll also sit in on workshops where meeting attendees will practice the same skills city students are being asked to bolster this year.
And they will answer questions from the public for 25 minutes. OCCUPYWALLSTREET: Take back our classrooms! OCCUPYWALLSTREET: Join the #OccupyTheDOE gro... Eclassroom news: Occupy Wall Street spills... GothamSchools: Walcott is drowned out by... Occupy The DoEon OccupyNYC. Gothamschools. The possibility of a public comment session evaporated just moments into tonight’s Panel for Educational Policy meeting, after nearly 200 protesters drowned out Department of Education officials. The panel had convened for a special meeting about the city’s new curriculum standards. But as Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott and the standards’ architect, David Coleman, took the stage at Seward Park High School, protesters aligned with the Occupy movement launched a chorus of complaints via “the people’s mic.” “Mic check!” Each protester would call out, commanding the attention of his or her compatriots. Then he or she would call out a statement, pausing after every few words so that others could repeat them, amplifying the statement without the help of a microphone.
“The DOE’s priorities! “We want our teachers to be paid more,” yelled a 7-year-old, Anais Richard, who attends P.S. 11 in Brooklyn. Walcott delivered his opening remarks over the shouting. David Coleman addresses community members at Panel for Education Policy meeting. @PSulliv, the Manhattan BP appointee 2 the Mayor's Panel 4 Ed Policy, speaks about tonight's #OcucpyEdu on livestream: @GothamSchools. Chancellor Walcott speaks to protesters at the special Panel for Education Policy meeting on Common Core standards. Anais Richard, 7, protests Department of Education policies at the special Panel for Education Policy meeting on the Common Core. Occupy The DOE. A history of failed reform - The Answer Sheet. This was written by Marc Epstein, who was a history teacher at Jamaica High School in Queens, N.Y., for the past 15 years, and a former dean of students.
Since the “phasing out” of Jamaica began this year he is currently a member of the “absent teacher reserve,” along with about one half of the Jamaica faculty. They are assigned to different schools each week. His articles on school violence, curriculum, and testing, have appeared in Education Next, City Journal and a number of New York newspapers. He contributed to “A Consumer’s Guide To High School History Textbooks.” Epstein has a Ph.D in Japanese-American diplomatic history. By Marc Epstein If you follow newspaper accounts about school reform, you can’t help but notice that various school reforms that have inundated public education over the past decade of mayoral control of the New York City public schools have failed.
That wasn’t the end of the bad news. Gates cited one significant exception: New York City. Diane Ravitch: Corporate reform movement... Kkpdcxlj Shared by justinwedes. Twitter #occupyDEO search. Teachers, Students and Parents Against Privatized Education Join Occupy Wall Street. New York Students Walkout Against School Closures.