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PS197 Harlem Protests Democracy Prep Charter Invasion

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Uploaded by on Jul 25, 2009

July 22, 2009 - Harlem Parents, Teachers & Community protested the further privatization of PS 197 now with the Democracy Prep Charter. Already the Harlem Children's Zone Charter operates their afterschool program. GEM, the Grassroots Education Movement in Defense of Public Education, participated. The UFT-AFT leadership has supported privatization with charter schools and thus the union-busting that comes with it! Fight this privatization pushed by the DOE & the UFT!

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  • When charters have private boards and are exempt from public & labor regulations & laws,

    and can manipulate who they can accept, then they are private. When Harlem Success Academy Director Moskowitz pays herself a $370K Salary without public input [or a Brooklyn Charter Director a $700K salary] then the public would have been able

    to indict these charter-operators for super-grand larceny if charters had not been exempted from public laws and oversight.

    Shame on those poverty pimps!

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  • First, Charter schools are public schools. Second, There are 400 kids at PS 197 in a school built for 1,000

    Third, DOE's elimination of 6th grade elementary programs is occurring all over the city,

    Fourth, I'm sure there were public hearings on the subject, I wonder if these people showed up then

  • i use to go that school when i was 5 to 12

    im in jr high now but that school was the shit! and i know all those teachers they need to sit they dumb ass's down!

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  • i go 2 this school,this is my last year :[

  • y democracy prep i used to go to this school for 2 years 6 th and 7th and democray prep rules.sike.

  • People around the world are struggling against the increasing commercialization and privatization of public education!

    This development is pushed by global forces (unleashed by global competition) and can therefore only be effectively countered, if we also unite globally!

    Search for "Emancipating-Education-For-Al­l" d_O_t org

    People around the world will unite in protest for a "Global Week of Action" [against the marketization of education] in Nov. 2009!!

    In Solidarity from Germany,

    Mo.

  • Charter Schools are only "public" schools in 2 ways:

    1. They receive public money from the state's and city's already limited education pots.

    2. City children attend free of tuition costs.

  • Charter Schools are only "public" schools in 2 ways:

    1. They receive public money from the state and city's already limited education pots.

    2. City children attend free of tuition costs.

  • yo thety just trying to fight a fight cuase they lossing their fuckin jobs yo. my school the school they are fight in won't even goin to confront them bout their actions

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