Coalition for Glen Cove Meeting
Tuesday 12 Sept 2000 7PM at City Hall
Agenda:
Guest speaker:
Vito Abbondandolo, President,
Glen Cove Board of Education
Recently Achieved
Janet
Bates-Wilkins arranged for a Coalition voter registration stand at
the Glen Cove Craft Fair on September 9 and 10. Janet, Phyllis
Spector, Amy Bikoff, Sally Zimmerman, Fern Lindenbaum, Ronnie
Lavine, Doug Hutchings, worked
at the booth.
Don
Scarl and Don Ranieri spoke at the September 5 Rotary meeting.
We
had a press release in the papers about Dr. Freeley speaking at
our last meeting.
Bruce
Schor has asked the papers to state that students winning honors
graduated from GCHS
The
Coalition website is in operation.
The
consensus seems to be that Tuesday is better than Thursday for a
meeting night. We will try in October to meet at St. Paul’s.
For
discussion:
Report
of people who worked at VOTE 2000 table
Report
from Coalition Against Charter Schools.
Coalition Against Charter Schools is gathering hundreds of
names on a petition against charter schools. If you would like to
sign call or email Gloria Wagner
674-4541.
Janet
Bates-Wilkins will arrange a debate on education issues between
Carl Marcellino and Larry Silverman
We
should do a poll of those who voted in the last budget vote.
How
can we discourage some of the candidates for school board
How
should we choose the candidates we will back for school board
For
information:
Interviews
in papers with school people:
(Phyllis Spector)
For
the website we need:
PTA
officers meeting dates and committee members names (Carol Spahn)
Names and addresses of people on school building site
committees, Boosters, Scholarship Committee (Angela Hamel)
A description of what the curriculum supervisors do. (Angela
Hamel)
Information about members, meetings, and activities of CSEA,
SEPTA, BOCES
Pictures of graduation, play, football, basketball, girls
soccer, track, Rising STAR, jazz band, physics lab,
kindergarten, fashion show, art room, shop, handicapped
inclusion: (Scott Goldberg, Joe Vignolini)
Events, plays, concerts, games, meetings
Meeting
with CC, BID, Kiwanis, American Legion, Seniors, Mayfair, Regency,
(Don Ranieri)
Panel
discussion with leaders of Glen Cove Real Estate Firms.
(Leslie Whitely, Mary Ellen Freeley)
Dr.
Freeley is working on making school board easier to understand and
more popular. Suggestions: publish agenda a few days before
meetings. Make copies of documents available. Publish minutes.
Dr.
Freeley will write a “Superintendent’s column” for the
papers once each month.
Community
meeting on public education:
(Janet Bates-Wilkins)
Panel
discussion with Marcellino, Ackerman, Sidikman, Muellers
Bring people (City Council, real estate people, school board,
service club officers, and so on) into the schools to see what
goes on. (Chris Swirnoff)
Ask
churches about church groups we could speak to
Liaison
with PTA, Boosters, Scholarship committee
Help
people sign up for STAR exemptions
Nathaley
suggested that board of education meetings be broadcast on video.
Maureen
Tracy suggested that a video of the schools be made..
Explain
mechanics of elections to new voters
Put
Coalition literature in boxes in GC Library
Involve
parents of ESL students
Each
member bring one person to meeting.
Make
list of losses caused by austerity budget.
Send
notice about Coalition to all GC teachers’ mailboxes. Request,
paragraphs, pictures Achievements: National State County
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