New Yorkers for Racially Just Public Schools RJPS

New Yorkers for Racially Just Public Schools RJPS RJPS is a citywide education justice coalition aimed at centering racial equity in policy and budget

Amidst the joy and celebration of the NY Knicks ticker-tape parade, a Black NYC public school student experienced a viol...
06/20/2026

Amidst the joy and celebration of the NY Knicks ticker-tape parade, a Black NYC public school student experienced a violent, reckless encounter with the NYPD. While on his way to take his crucial end-of-year Regents Exam, he was stopped, held down, and restrained by at least four officers while countless others stood by.

Our young people deserve to be treated as students navigating their growth—not as criminals.

New Yorkers for Racially Just Public Schools (RJPS) and the Dignity in Schools Campaign-NY (DSC-NY) are heavily condemning these actions and demanding immediate city accountability.

🚨 We are calling on Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Chancellor Kamar Samuels to:
👉 Launch an immediate investigation into this incident.
👉 Divest from school policing and reinvest NYC's $400M annual school policing budget into Restorative Justice programs, mental health support, and guidance counselors.
👉 Amend harmful regulations (like Intro 175B context) that continue to police and target the bodies of Black and Brown youth.

Schools that focus on relationship-building, emotional support, and inclusive discipline are safer than those relying on heavy surveillance and punitive measures. Every student deserves to feel safe and respected on their way to school.

🔗 Head to the link in our bio to read the full joint statement and join the call to action.

Happening TONIGHT at 7 PM! ⏰There is just one hour left until our Voucher Teach-In. If you want to learn how to protect ...
06/16/2026

Happening TONIGHT at 7 PM! ⏰

There is just one hour left until our Voucher Teach-In. If you want to learn how to protect NYS public education from the latest privatization schemes and demand that Governor Hochul reject the Voucher Tax Scam, this is your space.

Get ready to learn, connect, and take action.

👉 Head to the link in our bio to grab the live stream link right now.

🚨 PRIVATIZATION ALERT: Donald Trump’s "Voucher Tax Scam" is sweeping the country, and we need to keep it out of New York...
06/14/2026

🚨 PRIVATIZATION ALERT: Donald Trump’s "Voucher Tax Scam" is sweeping the country, and we need to keep it out of New York State.

School vouchers defund our public schools to subsidize private education. We need to get ahead of this threat NOW and put pressure on Governor Kathy Hochul to completely reject this scam. NYS should be investing heavily in public education, not expanding schemes that weaken it.

Tune into our Voucher Teach-In to learn exactly what’s at stake and how we can take collective action.

🗓️ Tuesday, June 16th
⏰ 7:00 PM
📍 Link in bio to register!

NYC’s first Executive Budget from Mayor Mamdani is here—and the tide is finally turning. 🌊🗽After years of defending our ...
05/14/2026

NYC’s first Executive Budget from Mayor Mamdani is here—and the tide is finally turning. 🌊🗽

After years of defending our schools against draconian cuts, we’re seeing a real down payment on the future of our students. We celebrate the wins, but the roadmap to a world-class education system doesn’t end here.

The Highlights:
✅ Early Childhood: $40M for CBO worker raises & family child care providers.
✅ Class Size: $1.5B capital investment & 1,000 new teachers.
✅ Summer Rising: $106M officially baselined!
✅ Libraries: $31.7M restoration to keep our doors open.

The Vision Forward:
To build a truly racially just system, we must reform the Fair Student Funding formula. Our highest-need students, including those in temporary housing, can’t wait. We’re calling for restorative justice, community schools, and a tax on the ultra-wealthy to fully fund our future. 💰📚

https://rjps.org/2026/05/14/mayor-mamdanis-first-executive-budget-proposal-a-step-in-the-right-direction-and-more-is-needed/

Thank you ! By vetoing Intro 175-B, the Mayor has taken an important step to protect students, educators, and school com...
04/24/2026

Thank you !

By vetoing Intro 175-B, the Mayor has taken an important step to protect students, educators, and school communities. Schools should be places of learning and expression, not zones of surveillance or suppression. More than 100 organizations and unions and thousands of New Yorkers came together in opposition, sending 25,136 letters to City Hall.

The message was clear: protect our voices and the rights of our students, parents, and educators to gather and protest.

City Council Members must now hold firm, vote no, and sustain the veto.

Action Alert! 🚨🚨🚨RALLY TO PROTECT FREE SPEECH & SAFETY📍 Near West Gate of New York City Hall🗓 April 16⏰ 12 PM
04/14/2026

Action Alert! 🚨🚨🚨

RALLY TO PROTECT FREE SPEECH & SAFETY
📍 Near West Gate of New York City Hall
🗓 April 16
⏰ 12 PM

As a coalition of numerous organizations from across New York City, RJPS stands in solidarity with Black people and elev...
03/19/2026

As a coalition of numerous organizations from across New York City, RJPS stands in solidarity with Black people and elevates the plethora of Black education activists and advocates from within and outside of our collective. Unfortunately, the sentiments expressed at the CEC meeting on February 10th, 2026 is part of a long, pernicious history of anti-Black statements and actions against Black students, families, and communities in New York City and beyond. We amplify the efforts of the various Black-led member organizations, including PSPNY and Black-led CECs across the city, and organizers to rectify past and current harms within the district and co-sign the political and structural changes to uproot anti-Black racism from classrooms to central offices and all points in between.

We appreciate both Chancellor Kamar Samuels’ and Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s recognition of the role that Black New Yorkers have played in the story we tell about the city, and now we must take this sentiment many steps further. The RJPS roadmap is not possible without the historical and social imprint Black students, families, educators, and community members left across the city and state, many of whom are still alive to tell the story. As such, our attention to integration as a form of collective power sharing, anti-bias and restorative justice training for adults, and codes of conduct and preventative systems in our educational operations show clearly our intention for a truly public education for all of our children, particularly those most marginalized by anti-Blackness.

Read our full statement: link in our bio.

We’re excited to partner with Senators John Liu, Robert Jackson, Jabari Brisport, Assemblymembers Marcela Mitaynes and J...
03/18/2026

We’re excited to partner with Senators John Liu, Robert Jackson, Jabari Brisport, Assemblymembers Marcela Mitaynes and Jessica Gonzales-Rojas to host a legislative briefing on the New Democratic School Governance Campaign this Thursday (3/19) at 8:30 AM in Albany.

We invite state legislative leaders to join us for this important conversation on advancing equitable, community-centered school governance.

Please share and tag your legislative leaders who should be part of this conversation.

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