Build Schools Now

Thanks to Downtown Express for keeping up the pressure on the SCA to site, build and open the elementary school funded in the current capital plan for CB1.

Pre-K yes, but Downtown not OK with K space | DOWNTOWN EXPRESS Photo courtesy of the Mayor’s Office.Mayor Bill de Blasio last year at a pre-K event at Spruce Street School with Assemblymember Sheldon Silver, who was the Assembly’s speaker then.

Please come out on Saturday, March 28th at noon at third avenue & 41st Street to protest Governor Cuomo's proposed education budget.

March 28: Rally at Governor Cuomo's NYC Office to Protest Education Budget BUILD SCHOOLS NOW is a non-partisan, independent expenditure only, political committee whose goal is to promote awareness of the urgent need to build public schools downtown to meet demographic growth.

Please see the following important request from Leonie Haimson at Class Size Matters:


Dear Friend ,

Please help us continue to protect our public schools by signing our petition here to Governor Cuomo, Speaker Heastie, and Majority Leader Skelos now and send a letter here to your legislator.

Throughout NY state, parents, students, and teachers have rallied to protect our public schools from Governor's Cuomo's attempt to hold school aid hostage to his damaging policies to double-down on high-stakes testing, and divert funding to private schools and charters. Yet the Governor has called these peaceful protests “a tantrum of special interests,” adding: “Frankly, the louder special interests scream ... the more we know we’re right.”

We need to send a message to the Legislature and the Governor that parents are NOT a special interest. We cannot allow our precious resources to be siphoned off to allow Cuomo and his billionaire donors attain their goal of privatizing our public schools.

Thanks,


Leonie Haimson
Executive Director
Class Size Matters
124 Waverly Pl.
New York, NY 10011
212-674-7320

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More highrises continue to go up with out any plans or resources for schools, parks or other infrastructure to accomodate additional residents. Thanks to Tribeca Trib for this important story.

Community to Get What from A Whopping 62-Story Tower? | Tribeca Trib Online St. John’s University at Murray and West streets is being demolished to make way for a 740-foot-high residential tower, separate four-story building, and possibly a public plaza. Photo: Carl Glassman/Tribeca Trib

Thanks to CB1 for Keeping Pressure on for 1,000 Seats!

Great appreciation to CB1 Chair Catherine McVay Hughes and Co-Chairs of the CB1 Youth and Education Committee Chair Tricia Joyce and Co-Chair Paul Hovitz for their tireless work to keep new school capacity for CB1 on the agenda in the current budget.

Please see below a letter to Dean Fuleihan, Budget Director
New York City Office of Management and Budget in which they rank building a new school as the top priority in CB1.
http://www.nyc.gov/html/mancb1/downloads/pdf/Budget_Priorities/OMB%20%20FY%202016%20response.pdf

Great event at the Seaport this weekend!!! Many friends showed up to support:

Update on BSN at Taste of the Seaport BUILD SCHOOLS NOW is a non-partisan, independent expenditure only, political committee whose goal is to promote awareness of the urgent need to build public schools downtown to meet demographic growth.