The need for more transparency, accountability and parent input with the new state & federal school funds; guest NeQuan McLean, President of CEC 16

Resources:

• Mayor de Blasio’s agreement to fully fund schools’ Fair Student Funding (FSF) formula next year

• Local Law 17 of 2019 to create a Fair Student Funding Task Force that would release a report by Sept. 30, 2019 with recommendations on how to improve the FSF formula; which was never released

• Testimony of Shino Tanikawa, member of the FSF Taskforce, on how the FSF formula discourages smaller classes

• City Council proposal to spend $250 million on class size reduction next year

• Court decision requiring the city test charter school students and staff for Covid and city’s appeal of this decision

• For more information about the April 26 CEC 16 Community Town Hall about School Safety, go to https://www.cec16.org/  or email cec16@schools.nyc.gov

• The link to register for the webinar is: https://nycdoe.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_WmP4QVh7T3mxdj5vbjBCJw .