FIGHTBACKFRIDAYS

Mayor Bloomberg has gone too far. And we are fighting back!!! Over the past year, at least 50 schools have participated in the many Fight Back Fridays that have occurred across the city. School communities around New York City have had enough of the failed policies of the NYCDOE that have resulted in the deterioration and destruction of our public schools. As educators and parents, we demand a role in helping to shape our students' schools and futures.

Dewey Protests

  • John Dewey H.S. Fight Back Friday Protests

Sunday, December 2, 2012

E4E Counter Rally









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Friday, March 2, 2012

Fight Back Friday-March 2nd

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Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Fight Back Friday - January 27th


Schools Around New York City Participate In Fight Back Friday



John Dewey H.S. Faculty & Staff Fight Back By Wearing Stickers With Slogans








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Monday, January 16, 2012

John Dewey H.S. To Fight Back Against Bloomberg Attack - January 20th


Photographs & News Coverage of the Protest Actions

http://gothamschools.org/2012/01/20/students-staff-defend-john-dewey-in-face-of-turnaround-plans/


Photographs
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Press Release

The NYCDOE Memo To Students' Families



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UPCOMING ACTIONS


Fight Back Friday Crew




Stand Up For Public Education!




PAST ACTIONS


Next Fight Back Friday is June 10th!

Sponsoring Organizations


http://gemnyc.org/


http://www.nycore.org/


http://teachersforajustcontract.org/


http://www.teachersunite.net/


http://capeducation.blogspot.com/


http://iceuftblog.blogspot.com


Participating Schools


El Puente Academy for Peace and Justice, Brooklyn

Felisa Rincon de Gautier Inst. of Law & Public Policy HS Bronx

PS 15, Brooklyn

PS 157, Brooklyn

Academy for Environmental Leadership, Brooklyn

East Brooklyn Community High School in Canarsie, Brooklyn

Pan American International HS - Elmhurst Queens

Sunset Park High School, Brooklyn

PS 306, Queens

PS 69, Queens

PS 503, Brooklyn

Facing History, Manhattan

Lehman High School, Bronx

MS 136, Brooklyn

PS 94, Brooklyn

PS 193, Brooklyn

Green School, Brooklyn

Goldstein High School, Brooklyn

Lyons School, Brooklyn

PS 3, Brooklyn

PS 307, Brooklyn

Bronx international HS, Bronx

James Baldwin High School, Manhattan

Humanities Prep, Manhattan

PS 261, Brooklyn

International School, Prospect Heights, Brooklyn

Neighborhood School, Manhattan

Earth School, Manhattan

Children's Workshop School, Manhattan

John Dewey High School, Brooklyn

Brooklyn New School

PS 24, Brooklyn

PS 368, Manhattan

Bronx International High School, Morris Campus

IS 218, East New York


May 20th Fight Back Friday


PS 261, Brooklyn

PS 321, Brooklyn

Sunset Park High School, Brooklyn

PS 306, Queens,

PS 69, Queens

PS 503, Brooklyn

PS 254, Brooklyn

Facing History School, Manhattan

International School for Liberal Arts

Lehman High School, Bronx

PS 368, Bronx

PS 230, Brooklyn

Paul Robeson High School, Brooklyn

PS 24, Brooklyn

MS 136, Brooklyn

PS 193, Brooklyn

Bushwick School for Social Justice

Academy for Urban Planning

John Dewey High School, Brooklyn

PS 157, Brooklyn

Green School, Brooklyn

PS 123, Manhattan

Frederick Douglass Academy 5, Bronx

El Puente Academy for Peace and Justice

PS 15, Brooklyn

East Brooklyn Community High School in Canarsie

PAIHS, Queens

Neighborhood School, Manhattan

Childrens' Workshop School, Manhattan

James Baldwin School, Manhattan

Humanitites Prep, Manhattan

Lyons High School, Brooklyn

FDR High School, Brooklyn

Goldstein High School, Brooklyn

Jamaica High School, Queens

Bronx International HS, Morris Campus

High School for Excellence, Morris Campus

Alfred E Smith High School, Bronx


Families, teachers, and school staff are also

meeting in front of PS 10 in Brooklyn

and will march along 7th avenue

to join PS 295, MS 88, and New Voices.



Friday, March 25th-Join Public Schools Across the City to Advocate for Real Reforms that Will Transform our Public Schools.


After taking action in your school join us for a…

Press Conference @ 4:30 on the Steps of Tweed

(52 Chambers in Manhattan)


Photographs From March 25th FBF

https://picasaweb.google.com/108122375451944539262/FightBackFriday3252011?authkey=Gv1sRgCIb4oaX4sajdcw&feat=directlink#

--- Sponsored by GEM and NYCoRE ---


www.grassrootseducationmovement.blogspot.com


www.nycore.org



If you, your school, or your school community plan to participate in Fight Back Friday, let us know @ sam_p_coleman@yahoo.com so that we can include you on our list of participants/endorsers and interactive map as well as provide you with a Fight Back Friday Toolkit! The Toolkit will include literature and educational materials, media information, stickers, and sample materials to assist in your school organizing efforts. Visit our Blog @ www.fightbackfridays.blogspot.com, and post to our Facebook page @ fightbackfridays. Send in your school's perspectives, testimonials, videos and pictures of Fight Back Actions to fightbackfridays@gmail.com so that we can post them on this Blog.



Participating Schools


The Academy for Environmental Leadership

The Academy of Urban Planning

Bushwick School for Social Justice

James Baldwin High School

Humanities Prep High School

PS 307 Brooklyn

Pan American Internnational H.S.,Queens

PS 24 Brooklyn

PS 15 Brooklyn

PS 157 Brooklyn

Earth School

PS 41 Manhattan

Lehman H.S., Bronx

P. S. 193 Brooklyn

John Dewey H.S., Brooklyn

Lyons Community School, Brooklyn

PS 368 Manhattan

The Green School, Brooklyn

PS 347 Manhattan

PS/IS 187 Manhattan

Alfred E Smith H.S., Bronx

Neighborhood School, Manhattan

PS 230 Brooklyn

International H.S. at Prospect Heights

PS 254 Brooklyn



Join The Real Reformers at the Upcoming Panel for Educational Policy Meetings (all at Brooklyn Technical High School @ 5:30):


March 1st: **(note changed from 2/15)**: Support schools facing co-locations and Join us in declaring our schools are not for sale; say NO to the privatization agenda.


February 3rd: Support schools facing closings. Join us in telling the PEP that the current school closing policy is misguided and destructive, they should be supporting and fixing our schools, not closing them.


February 1st: Support schools facing closing and co-location. Join us in telling the PEP that Co-Locations only divide and hurt our public school communities.


January 19th: Greet Cathleen Black and tell her and the PEP to Defend Public Education and end the historic inequity in funding, particularly for schools that serve Black and Latino children.



January 21st: Fight Back Friday- Stand Up for Public Education, Wear Black and Take Our Schools Back! (email capeducation@gmail.com for more information or to endorse). Press Conference on the steps of Tweed @ 4:30.


Endorsers and Participants


Sponsored by GEM


www.grassrootseducationmovement.blogspot.com


CEC1-unanimously endorsed

CIF- Center for Immigrant Families

Chris Owens- Democratic District Leader/ 52nd Assembly

NYCORE -New York Collective of Radical Educators

CAPE -Concerned Advocates for Public Education


Participating Schools:(list in formation)


PS 24


PS 15


PS 165


PS 3K


The Earth School (PS 364)


The Academy for Environmental Leadership


John Dewey H.S.


James Baldwin


Lehman High School


Humanities Prep


Paul Robeson H.S.

Murry Bergtraum


Jamaica High School


Youth On The Move



January 27th: City-Wide Rally from 4:30-6:30 @ City Hall Plaza- Stop School Closings, Charter Take Overs, Defend Public Education, Stop the Drive to Privatize. (email gemnyc@gmail.com for more information or to endorse)



Sponsors


Ad Hoc Committee to Stop School Closings and Charter Takeovers

Class Size Matters

Coalition for Public Education (CPE)

Grassroots Education Movement NYC (GEM)

New York Collective of Radical Educators (NYCoRE)

The Manhattan Local of the Green Party of NY State

United Federation of Teachers (UFT)



Endorsers (list in formation)


Teachers for a Just Contract (TJC)

Concerned Advocates for Public Education (CAPE)

Independent Community of Educators (ICE)

Center For Immigrant Families (CIF)

Puerto Rico Solidarity Network - PRSN NY

People Power Movement

Renaissance School of the Arts-M377 (UFT Chapter)

City Wide Coalition For Educational Excellence Now

South Bronx Community Council

Black Women Against Urban Youth Violence

Teachers Unite (TU)

NYwithUPR (NY with University of Puerto Rico)

Independent Workers Movement/Movimiento Independiente de Trabajadores

Chris Owens/ District Leader/52nd AD,

Retiree Advocate Caucus-UFT

CUNY Mobilization Network

Green Party of NYS

Independent Commission of Public Education (ICOPE)

Radical Women

Answer Coalition

Community Education Council 1 (CEC 1)

Black New Yorkers for Educational Excellence (BNYEE)




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