Bill de Blasio and the Collapse of Education in New York city-journal.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from city-journal.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
NYC parent council elections reflect bitter school integration divides
The outcomes of Community Education Council elections could steer the course for future school integration plans.
Share this story
Parents in January 2020 applaud a speaker during a contentious meeting to discuss middle school integration plans for District 28 in Queens. Fights how to make New York City schools more representative of student demographics have filtered down to the races to elect Community Education Council members.
Christina Veiga / Chalkbeat
New York City’s Community Education Councils have emerged in recent years as an instrumental platform and a battleground when it comes to changing admissions policies in attempts to integrate one of the country’s most segregated school systems.
NYC public school parent? Vote now nydailynews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from nydailynews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
De Blasio unclear on fall remote option for schools
05/10/2021 10:00 AM EDT
Editor’s Note: Weekly New York Education is a weekly version of POLITICO Pro’s daily New York Education newsletter. POLITICO Pro is a policy intelligence platform that combines the news you need with tools you can use to take action on the day’s biggest stories. Act on the news with POLITICO Pro.
Good morning and welcome to the Monday edition of the New York Education newsletter. We take a look at the week ahead and a look back at the past week.
As students, families and staff prepare for the summer and look ahead to fall, the city still has not indicated whether it will offer a fully remote option in the fall.
.
Jon Grabelle Herrmann, who is ending his two-year term on District 1’s CEC serving Manhattan’s Lower East Side and East Village, described CECs as “a little corner of democracy where you can have a voice.”
The vast majority of public school parents have probably paid little attention to their district’s 11-member CECs, committees that are largely advisory except for their power to shape school zone boundaries. More recently, many CECs such as Herrmann’s have spearheaded efforts to pursue districtwide school integration plans.
The change in the voting eligibility from three parent association leaders at each school to all parents and legal guardians with children in district schools follows Mayor Bill de Blasio’s 2019 bid to the state legislature to extend mayoral control over the city school system. In exchange for three more years, the state demanded additional avenues for parent involvement.