Feb 24, 2021 • 56M

Organizing Mutual Aid Education and School Funding Reparations

 
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Educators of NYC
A weekly podcast and radio show on WBAI 99.5 FM NYC, hosted by Leonie Haimson of Class Size Matters, and Daniel Alicea of Educators of NYC. We speak about the issues and controversies affecting public schools and public education in New York City, statewide and nationally.
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  • National poll showing majority of voters believe teachers should be vaccinated before schools reopen

  • US Department of Education decision to reject states’ request for waivers from mandated standardized testing

  • Politico - NYPD plan to hire 475 School Safety agents this year

  • NY Times - Schools and districts elsewhere in the nation moving school police offers from police to school control and diverting funding towards hiring more social workers and counselors instead

  • Congresswoman AOC’s tutoring program: Orientation 

  • Application for homework help

  • School Finance, Race, and Reparations, article co-authored by Preston Green, Bruce Baker and Joseph Oluwole