Coalition for Glen Cove Meeting
Monday 9 December 2002, 7:30 PM at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church
Agenda
Dr. Mary Ellen Freely, Glen Cove superintendent of schools, will speak
at the December Coalition meeting about the new Federal “Leave No
Child Behind” program.
Minutes of Coalition meetings are on the website at
www.coalitiongc.org
Discussion
The Alliance for Quality Education is a coalition
of over 200 organizations that advocate for public schools in New York
State. The minutes of the Coalition November meeting at which Michael
Kent, the Long Coordinator of the Alliance, spoke, describe some of the
activities of the Alliance. The Alliance website is at
www.alianceforqualityeducation.org
It seems appropriate for the Coalition to join the
Alliance and add our voice to that of the 200 New York State
public-school related organizations who already belong. There is no cost
to the Coalition.
If any member objects to the Coalition joining the
Alliance for Quality Education, please send an email to
Don Scarl.
We hope we can persuade the Alliance for Quality
Education to invite Carl McCall to Long Island to speak on education in
New York state. Over 400 people attended a talk by Jonathan Kozol at
Hofstra in November on inequalities in education.
Other speakers on education could be John
Hildebrand (education editor at Newsday), Kenneth LaValle (chair of the
New York legislature higher education committee), Gerald Bracey (author
of Setting the Record Straight), Diane Ravitch (the premier
historian of public education in the United States), Alphie Kohn (suthor
of The Schools Our Children Deserve), David Berliner (co-author
of The Manufactured Crisis), and Richard Rothstein (author of
The Way We Were?).
Announcements
Janet Brown has interviewed Susan Moor; Joanna
Miller will interview a school psychologist, Rich Tortorici will
interview Diane Scricca |