February 12, 2015
Dear____________________________________________________________
As an educator in a public school, I want to express my opposition to the Governor’s proposals for public education. These proposals reflect a “bigfoot” approach – an attempt to centralize power over public education in Albany and strip away local control from parents and their local, democratically elected school boards.
Governor Cuomo’s billionaire agenda is the wrong conversation for 2015. It’s time for serious discussions about the real issues: the devastating impact of poverty on student achievement