The NYC Department of Education wants to put a charter school in PS 15 in Red Hook. This decision has been made in spite of protests from the school, community & parents, & the potential impact on PS15 could be incredibly negative. This blog presents information on the situation to the community to open a dialogue about the situation to resolve it successfully. Posts represent the opinions of individuals posting them, & are not necessarily the opinions of the staff & administration of PS15.
Saturday, June 7, 2008
Student Protests of Budget Cuts
I've added the student protests to the calendar and have posted invitations to the blog because I feel that budget cuts are part of the problem with the charter school issue. It offends me charter schools whine about getting less money than "traditional" public schools do; it offends me even more that they get any money at all, when the public schools are often failing because they've essentially been abandoned by the very agency mandated to operate them - the DOE - which is the same agency that's managed to waste huge amounts of money in the past several years and isn't even liable for replacing the money.
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