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Through our website, you can learn your rights as a taxpayer and parent as well as to which programs, monies and more you may be entitled...and why you may not be able to exercise these rights.
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is to put tax dollar expenditures and other monies used or spent by our federal, state and/or city governments before your eyes and in your hands.
Through our website, you can learn your rights as a taxpayer and parent as well as to which programs, monies and more you may be entitled...and why you may not be able to exercise these rights.
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The E-Accountability Foundation announces the
'A for Accountability' Award
to those who are willing to whistleblow unjust, misleading, or false actions and claims of the politico-educational complex in order to bring about educational reform in favor of children of all races, intellectual ability and economic status. They ask questions that need to be asked, such as "where is the money?" and "Why does it have to be this way?" and they never give up. These people have withstood adversity and have held those who seem not to believe in honesty, integrity and compassion accountable for their actions. The winners of our "A" work to expose wrong-doing not for themselves, but for others - total strangers - for the "Greater Good"of the community and, by their actions, exemplify courage and self-less passion. They are parent advocates. We salute you.
Winners of the "A":
Johnnie Mae Allen
David Possner
Dee Alpert
Aaron Carr
Harris Lirtzman
Hipolito Colon
Larry Fisher
The Giraffe Project and Giraffe Heroes' Program
Jimmy Kilpatrick and George Scott
Zach Kopplin
Matthew LaClair
Wangari Maathai
Erich Martel
Steve Orel, in memoriam, Interversity, and The World of Opportunity
Marla Ruzicka, in Memoriam
Nancy Swan
Bob Witanek
Peyton Wolcott
[ More Details » ]
'A for Accountability' Award
to those who are willing to whistleblow unjust, misleading, or false actions and claims of the politico-educational complex in order to bring about educational reform in favor of children of all races, intellectual ability and economic status. They ask questions that need to be asked, such as "where is the money?" and "Why does it have to be this way?" and they never give up. These people have withstood adversity and have held those who seem not to believe in honesty, integrity and compassion accountable for their actions. The winners of our "A" work to expose wrong-doing not for themselves, but for others - total strangers - for the "Greater Good"of the community and, by their actions, exemplify courage and self-less passion. They are parent advocates. We salute you.
Winners of the "A":
Johnnie Mae Allen
David Possner
Dee Alpert
Aaron Carr
Harris Lirtzman
Hipolito Colon
Larry Fisher
The Giraffe Project and Giraffe Heroes' Program
Jimmy Kilpatrick and George Scott
Zach Kopplin
Matthew LaClair
Wangari Maathai
Erich Martel
Steve Orel, in memoriam, Interversity, and The World of Opportunity
Marla Ruzicka, in Memoriam
Nancy Swan
Bob Witanek
Peyton Wolcott
[ More Details » ]
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Current Events
NYC Gets 8 New Charter Schools, While Assemblyman Steve Sanders Tries to Suffocate the Charter Movement
EIGHT IS NOT ENOUGH
Sun Jun 13, Op/Ed - New York Post Mayor Bloomberg and Schools Chancellor Joel Klein went a long way this week toward fulfilling their pledge to open 50 new charter schools in five years. On Wednesday, Klein announced that eight new schools will open their doors to 1,000 students in troubled neighborhoods. Eight down, 42 to go. Unlike traditional public schools, these publicly funded, privately run schools will be free of much of the bureaucracy and red tape that gets in the way of teachers and administrators doing their jobs: educating children. Crucially, these schools will operate outside of the mammoth contract defended so fiercely by Randi Weingarten's United Federation of Teachers. The fact isn't lost on the teachers union that while they are out protesting for even shorter work days and even bigger pensions, the chancellor is busy finding a way to route around them. As one union official put it recently, Klein is trying to "create a network of schools that [are] non-UFT." The union will do anything to stop him. The UFT's obedient servant, Manhattan Assemblyman Steve Sanders, chairman of the education committee, passed a bill out of his committee the day before Klein's announcement. The bill - call it the Charter School Suffocation Act - imposes a moratorium on new charter schools, cuts the funding of existing schools by 10 percent (they already receive about 20 percent less than traditional public schools) and limits the number of kids that can be enrolled in charter schools in a given district. And Sanders is just laying it on. He's already responsible for the fact that there's a cap on how many charter schools can be opened statewide, set currently at 100. Klein needs to undo this mischief, since there are only 35 slots left for charter schools in the entire state - let alone the 42 more he has planned just for New York City. As luck would have it, though, the wind is at Klein's back. A report issued last year by the state Education Department gave the first five years of the state's experience with charter schools glowing marks. The report found that students in charter schools made "dramatic" gains on state reading and math tests compared to their public school peers. Furthermore, the more parents who are exposed to charter schools - either because their child attends one, or because they're on a waiting list dying to get in - the bigger the constituency calling for the flood gates to be opened. Eight is great. But eight is not enough. Bloomberg and Klein get it. |
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