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KIDS K-12 PROTESTED AT TWEED:
Monday, June 9th – PS 75M students delivered protest letters from students
in their school to Tweed Courthouse
Tuesday, June 10th – Central Park East II students delivered letters to
Tweed, and staged a "READ-IN" with balloons tied to their backpacks on
Tweed Courthouse steps.
Wednesday, June 11th – Middle School students from the Computer School
arrived at TWEED with a poster filled with messages and a 'You've
Got Mail' envelope full of letters to Chancellor Klein.
Thursday, June 12th – Students from PS 163 carried colorful posters - such
as, "COUNT THE KIDS, NOT THE MONEY" - and delivered protest letters from
students at their school to Tweed.
Friday, June 13th – Edward R. Murrow High School and Stuyvesant High
School students delivered 100+ letters to Tweed. For excerpts from their
LETTERS see: www.mysidewalkchalk.blogspot.com
MONDAY June 16th: Students from PS 59 in Manhattan delivered an
astounding 250 letters from their schoolmates to the DOE. Carrying
several HUGE banners, they sat on the steps of Tweed Courthouse chanting,
"No Budget Cuts," and then delivered a GIANT envelope filled with their
letters to the Klein’s office.
ALSO: Kids, Parents, Teachers, and Administrators encircled City
Hall and Tweed at 4:30 - organized by the Keep the Promises Coalition.
TUESDAY June 17th: Students from PS 9 and PS 334 delivered huge POSTERS
signed by members of their school communities to Tweed Courthouse.
ALSO: Schools Chancellor KLEIN visited PS 87 to respond to the third
graders who delivered protest letters to Tweed Courthouse on May 14th.
After more than a month and many requests to the DOE for a response to
their unanswered letters, the kids grilled Klein on the rationale of
cutting money from NYC public schools.
WEDNESDAY June 18th: Students from the Manhattan School for Children
delivered their protest letters and Manhattan Borough President, SCOTT
STRINGER joined them on the steps of Tweed.
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED!!
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Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.
~James A. Garfield, July 12, 1880
20th president of the United States
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