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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.
Mission Statement
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.
Mission Statement
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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
New York City Department of Education Makes No Effort To Comply with School Leadership Team Guidelines and Laws
Grover Cleveland probe: Charge principal seized budget
BY NICOLE BODE, Daily News, July 19, 2004 The head of the City Council's Education Committee is looking into whether a Ridgewood public high school shut parents and teachers out of the school-based budgeting process, violating state and city laws. Councilwoman Eva Moskowitz launched an inquiry into possible problems at Grover Cleveland High School last month after hearing complaints that the principal barred parents and teachers on the school leadership team from collaborating on the school's spending plan. "It has been brought to my attention that the School Leadership Team at Grover Cleveland HS may have been excluded from the school budgeting process," Moskowitz (D-Manhattan) wrote in a June 1 letter to Region 4 Superintendent Reyes Irizarry. "If the report is true, it may constitute a violation of the 1996 School Governance Law." Under those state Department of Education rules, each school leadership team - or group of elected parent and teacher representatives and administrators - is responsible for developing an annual school comprehensive educational plan, or CEP. That means the team must generate a budgeting and staffing plan in tandem with the principal, according to the state Ed Department's 2004-2005 CEP guide. The city's Chancellor's Regulations B-801 and A-655 also vest teams with budgetary power. But according to Grover Cleveland's school leadership team chairman, teacher James Calantjis, teams across the city are being forced to rubber-stamp budgets created entirely by the principal, and in many cases are entirely shut out of the process for developing spending plans. "The administration has kept the process to themselves and not involved the school leadership as required by the law and the Chancellor's Regulations," Calantjis said. "The Department of Ed doesn't want to involve us, and they're trying to deflect the issue by saying that all they need to do is provide some budget info that's already been developed by the principals." "This is not a problem that's just affecting Grover Cleveland," he added. "This is a problem all over the city." Calantjis said that school leadership teams have little leverage with principals unwilling to share the total detailed spending plan. A Department of Education spokeswoman said the school and the region maintained the school had provided all the necessary budgetary documents to the school leadership team. "The school has assured us that they will continue to provide the necessary budget information to the school leadership team," said the spokeswoman, Margie Feinberg. |
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