Organizing For Equity, NY

This year, the plans to spend $20 million to hire 475 NEW school cops! Him + + also created a fake solution to transfer school cops to the DOE. We urge you all: No more school cops! No transfer! We need !
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Take Action with OFENY: Share Your Story with City Leaders on March 18! Join OFENY’s Community Schools and Police-Free Schools Team to share your stories and write a testimony on how these budget cuts affect YOUR life and community. Link in bio.

Join us for a special screening and post-discussion of new on Thursday from 6-8pm.   RSVP LINK IN BIO

Students, teachers, parents, and community leaders from across New York City have
come together to demand . Today we support Dignity in Schools Campaign-New York, Urban Youth Collaborative,
Ya-Ya Network and Teachers Unite and their demands for a more equitable NYC.

**Open Invite**

During our last meeting, we launched our 3 campaigns:

School Safety Budget Justice: Investment in a new school safety model that replaces school safety agents in all public schools.

Pay Parity for all Community-Based Organization Teachers in Early Childhood Education.

Restoration of the budget cuts to the Office of Community Schools & career development youth programs.



Join our meetings to:

1) learn more about grassroots organizing strategies
2) engage with our 3 campaigns
3) learn ways to get involved in OFENY’s fight for educational equity this new year!

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On Thursday, January 28th, OFENY will be having their official campaign launch with its first Campaign Meeting of the year.

The launching meeting will consist of two parts: a skill-building session where we will be sharpening our grassroots organizing skills by learning about the NYC Budgetary Process, followed by a deep dive of our policy planks for our campaign against educational inequity & injustice.

We hope to see many of you there!

'Working with Relational Trauma in Schools' by Kim Golding, Sian Phillips and Louise M Bombèr published - DDP Network We are delighted to announce the publication of ‘Working with Relational Trauma in Schools: An Educator’s Guide to Using Dyadic Developmental Practice‘ by Kim Golding CBE, Sian Phillips and Louise M Bombèr. This book is a vital guide for educators on how to use Dyadic Developmental Practice (...

"When I was younger, my grandfather - an asylum seeker - used to tell me that hard work and persistence will always be rewarded. After all, he became successful in the United States after years of injustice in Egypt. And so, I believed him.

But during my time in high school, I have learned that this idea of hard work amounting to success is not the case in the New York City public school system."

Read the rest of the brilliant Op Ed by at the ._.gazette!

“If we say the price of a quality education is segregation, well that’s ridiculous. If we say we want everyone in the same classroom together, but we don’t care about educational quality, well that’s ridiculous, too,” he said. “I think we’ve all been sold a false premise. We can actually do both — we can have quality schools and schools where we all learn together.”

NYC announces sweeping changes to middle, high school application process Middle schools will not use academic "screens" to select students, auditions for performing arts schools are going virtual, and the controversial Specialized High School Test will be administered in middle schools across the city.

Check out our very own Rachael Garnick’s op-ed on the Mayor’s disregard for CBO teachers & why they need hazard pay now.

Early Educators Deserve Hazard Pay Last month, New York City closed its K-12 public-school system to protect teachers and staff as the pandemic reached new heights. The city, however, was less concerned with the safety

“Access to mental health care for young people, especially Black and Hispanic youth, is more important than ever. Yet, there are major issues with access, and the ramifications are already dire. While the de Blasio administration recently announced new steps to provide more mental health support to young people, especially in areas of the city hardest hit by COVID-19, large gaps remain and the scope of the problem may not be fully realized.”

City's Black and Hispanic Youth Face Dire Need for Mental Health Care Students back in school amid a pandemic (photo: Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office) The COVID-19 pandemic has had profound effects for children across New York City and State, as well as their families, like the loss of a loved one, economic distress, food insecurity, and the shutdown of sc...