The petition
Class Size Matters/ Put the Public Back in Public Education Coalition
STOP THE REORGANIZATION AND BUDGET CUTS!
To Mayor Bloomberg and Chancellor Klein:
Since the start of your administration, our children have been subjected to six years of continuous restructuring, resulting in chaos, disruption and no real improvement in our schools. Instead of more accountability and transparency, we have gotten less. Instead of more involvement, public school parents have been shut out of decision-making on every level and our concerns treated with contempt.
Your latest reorganization proposals are the riskiest yet – and threaten to harm successful schools by penalizing them financially for having experienced teachers.
Enough is enough! Listen to parents. These are our demands:
• Provide smaller classes and a better capital plan to eliminate overcrowding.
• Restore arts funding and reduce testing.
• Include real input from parents and other stakeholders at the school level and system-wide before important decisions are made.
• Invest more resources in our children and the classroom, and waste less on expensive bureaucrats, consultants and no-bid contracts at Tweed.
• Stop the privatization and outsourcing of critical education services.
• Finally, no budget cuts to any school. Every one of our public schools is under-funded. With more than $1 billion in additional education spending and record city surpluses, there is no reason for any school to have its funding cut next year.
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